John Donkin

Production

John Donkin

John Donkin received an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as producer of Gone Nutty, an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular character Scrat from the “Ice Age” films. Donkin joined Blue Sky Studios in 1998 as a technical and administrative director. One of his first projects was helping to complete the Oscar-winning short film Bunny. He developed the production line for Blue Sky's first feature-length animated film project, Ice Age, before becoming an associate producer on the film. Donkin went on to produce several other Blue Sky Studios projects, including Rio and Rio 2, which became a globally successful franchise, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which grossed over $887 million worldwide, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Robots, and the Oscar-nominated short Blue Sky No Time for Nuts. Donkin began his career in computer animation in 1983, where he studied with the world-renowned CGRG (Computer Graphics Research Group) at Ohio State University. He went on to become a senior animator at the pioneering computer graphics company Cranston/Csuri Productions.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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: 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

Rio poster
6.8

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 human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.

Rio

2011

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: 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

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild poster
6.5

The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they head off on a new adventure into Buck's home: The Dinosaur World.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

2022

Rio 2 poster
6.5

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 in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

Rio 2

2014

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

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

Gone Nutty poster
7.0

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

Gone Nutty

2002

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

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

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

Dinosaur Stuff poster
NR

Computer animated dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Stuff

1988