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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 Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Wedge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Scrat is an 2006 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It is a spin-off/prequel to the Ice Age franchise. The film was directed by Chris Wedge and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha and Karen Disher from a screenplay by Michael J. Wilson and a story by Jenny Bicks, and features the voices of Chris Wedge, Karen Disher, Tom Hiddleston, Jack Black, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Jane Krakowski, Kristen Johnston and Kari Wahlgren. The film was released in the United States on April 14, 2006. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and was nominated half of the awards and won half of the awards. The film has grossed over $968 million worldwide.
