Chris Wedge

Acting

Chris Wedge

Born 1957-03-20 · Binghamton, New York, USA

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.

Acting credits

Ice Age: Collision Course poster
6.1

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 series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and locations.

Ice Age: Collision Course

2016

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs poster
6.8

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 when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

2009

Ice Age: Continental Drift poster
6.4

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 battle pirates as they explore a new world.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

2012

Ice Age poster
7.4

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

Ice Age

2002

Ice Age: Boiling Point poster
NR

A dinosaur-and-lava-filled madcap adventure takes Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Buck, acorn-obsessed Scrat – this time joined by Baby Scrat and the enormous Jurassic Scrat – and the rest of the herd to visit never before-seen corners of the treacherous Lost World.

Ice Age: Boiling Point

2027

Ice Age: The Meltdown poster
6.7

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 starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.

Ice Age: The Meltdown

2006

Robots poster
6.5

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, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Robots

2005

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas poster
6.4

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 make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

2011

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade poster
6.4

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 new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny, Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

2016

Surviving Sid poster
6.2

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 children he takes with him don't have a very good time.

Surviving Sid

2008

Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe poster
6.5

Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.

Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe

2015

Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty poster
5.3

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.

Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty

2005

Gone Nutty poster
7.0

Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.

Gone Nutty

2002

Goodbye Mommy poster
6.3

A surrealist, sci-fi, neo-noir fable about a hard-boiled but heartbroken detective whose new case takes him on the trail of a giant missing king and his tiny, adorable alien baby. The delirious short takes place in a far future equal parts Blade Runner and Bruegel the Elder, full of tough-talking gangsters, jaw-dropping neon vistas, and enough bizarre creatures and robots to fill several Star Wars cantinas. The world-building illustrates the animator’s philosophy that movies can be as much about their setting as they are their characters.

Goodbye Mommy

2019

No Time for Nuts poster
7.4

Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.

No Time for Nuts

2006

Scrat: Spaced Out poster
6.3

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 before the aliens can catch him.

Scrat: Spaced Out

2016

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 poster
6.4

This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

2011

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up poster
6.8

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-handedly alter the course of Earth’s history.

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

2010

Bunny poster
6.6

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing is what it seems.

Bunny

1998

Adventures in Plymptoons! poster
2.0

A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.

Adventures in Plymptoons!

2011

Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D poster
7.0

A "remake" of No Time for Nuts (2006)

Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D

2015

Scrat in Love poster
6.4

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 saber-tooth squirrel, who can be more intelligent than Scrat, but the Love between the two could blossom between them. There is still an a nutty case of contention though, which is caused by a nut!

Scrat in Love

2009

Ice Age: The Last Adventure of Scrat (The End) poster
7.8

In the final days of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms.

Ice Age: The Last Adventure of Scrat (The End)

2022

The End poster
NR

In the final days of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms.

The End

2022

Behind the camera

Ice Age poster
7.4

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

Ice Age

2002

Robots poster
6.5

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, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Robots

2005

Epic poster
6.6

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 bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

Epic

2013

Monster Trucks poster
6.1

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 his mischievous new friend, Tripp hides Creech under the hood of his latest creation, turning it into a real-life super-powered Monster Truck. Together, this unlikely duo with a shared taste for speed team up on a wild and unforgettable journey to reunite Creech with his family.

Monster Trucks

2016

The Daymaker poster
NR

Sol, a batty old inventor, believes he can control the daytime.

The Daymaker

1982

The Daymaker poster
NR

Sol, a batty old inventor, believes he can control the daytime.

The Daymaker

1982

Bunny poster
6.6

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing is what it seems.

Bunny

1998

Bunny poster
6.6

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing is what it seems.

Bunny

1998

Tuber's Two Step poster
6.5

Little Tuber learns to walk -- and more -- in this early computer animated film from Chris Wedge, the eventual founder of Blue Sky Studios.

Tuber's Two Step

1985

Tuber's Two Step poster
6.5

Little Tuber learns to walk -- and more -- in this early computer animated film from Chris Wedge, the eventual founder of Blue Sky Studios.

Tuber's Two Step

1985

No artwork available
4.6

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 projects took years and were still created using massive mainframe computers--as PCs were not fast enough or complex enough to do this sort of work. And, most importantly, rendering software had to be created by anyone wanting to do such work. It was a very primitive time for the most primitive sort of CGI, this short film is an animation that was used to demonstrate the new physics of the polygon animation.

Balloon Guy

1987

No artwork available
4.6

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 projects took years and were still created using massive mainframe computers--as PCs were not fast enough or complex enough to do this sort of work. And, most importantly, rendering software had to be created by anyone wanting to do such work. It was a very primitive time for the most primitive sort of CGI, this short film is an animation that was used to demonstrate the new physics of the polygon animation.

Balloon Guy

1987