Biography
John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated F...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Nimona
2023
Thanks
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
Ice Age: The Last Adventure of Scrat (The End)
2022
as Scrat
Spies in Disguise
2019
Executive Producer
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter...
Ferdinand
2017
Executive Producer
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with ...
Monster Trucks
2016
Director
Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect hi...
Scrat: Spaced Out
2016
as Scrat (voice)
In the main events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat is captured by Scratazons who take away his acorn. Now, Scrat must rescue his Acorn and escape ...
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016
as Scrat (voice)
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a ...
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016
Executive Producer
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a ...
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
2016
as Scrat (voice)
A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his ne...
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
2016
Executive Producer
A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his ne...
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe
2015
as Scrat (voice)
Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe
2015
Executive Producer
Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.
Rio 2
2014
Executive Producer
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit ...
Epic
2013
Director, Story
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She ba...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012
as Scrat (voice)
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and ...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012
Executive Producer
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and ...
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
2011
as Scrat (voice)
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to ma...
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
2011
Executive Producer
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to ma...
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
2011
as Scrat (voice)
This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
as Himself
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, c...
Rio
2011
Executive Producer
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his...
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up
2010
as Scrat (voice)
You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most sought after possession, Scrat manges to singled-...
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up
2010
Producer
You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most sought after possession, Scrat manges to singled-...
Scrat in Love
2009
as Scrat (voice)
The squirrel Scrat is going to meet a mate in Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the latest opus of Ice Age. Her name is Scratte, and she is a female s...
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009
as Scrat (voice)
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes whe...
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009
Executive Producer
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes whe...
The Scrat Pack
2009
as Scrat (voice)
Short films, featurettes, activities and more, with Scrat and friends.
Surviving Sid
2008
as Scrat (voice)
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the ...
Surviving Sid
2008
Executive Producer
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the ...
Horton Hears a Who!
2008
Executive Producer
The classic and beloved story from Dr. Seuss is now a CG animated film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the Ice Age films. An imaginativ...
No Time for Nuts
2006
as Scrat (voice)
Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.
No Time for Nuts
2006
Executive Producer
Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
as Scrat (voice)
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is ...
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
Executive Producer
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is ...
Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
2005
as Hacky (voice)
Aunt Fanny gives a tour of the Robot City Train Station to motley collection of robots, including Fender, Zinc, Tammy, Hacky and an Old Lady-Bot.
Robots
2005
as Wonderbot / Phone Booth (voice)
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now...
Robots
2005
Director
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now...
Gone Nutty
2002
as Scrat (voice)
Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.
Gone Nutty
2002
Executive Producer
Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.
Ice Age
2002
as Dodo / Scrat (voice)
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and S...
Ice Age
2002
Director
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and S...
Bunny
1998
Director, Writer
Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A photograph from her wedding day is on her wall. A pesky and p...
Joe's Apartment
1996
Animation Director
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
Balloon Guy
1987
Director
Back in 1987, CGI was still relatively new. Pixar had only produced three shorts by that time and they tended to be extremely simple. And, such projec...
Tuber's Two Step
1985
Producer, Animation, Director
Little Tuber learns to walk -- and more -- in this early computer animated film from Chris Wedge, the eventual founder of Blue Sky Studios.
Tron
1982
Visual Effects
When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...And becomes part of t...
The Daymaker
1982
Animation, Director, Writer
Sol, a batty old inventor, believes he can control the daytime.