--- name: "Chris Wedge" canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-wedge" fi1m_id: "chris-wedge" imdb_id: "nm0917188" tmdb_id: 5713 wikidata_id: "Q185655" roles: ["Director","Producer"] born: "20 March 1957" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 68 average_as: "director" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-05T04:04:46.764397+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Chris Wedge ## Identity Chris Wedge - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chris-wedge - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** chris-wedge - **IMDb ID:** nm0917188 - **TMDB ID:** 5713 - **Wikidata ID:** Q185655 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wedge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185655, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917188/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5713 Director and producer. Born 20 March 1957 in Binghamton, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Producer - **Born:** 20 March 1957, Binghamton, New York, USA - **Active:** 2002–2011 - **Also known as:** John Christopher Wedge, Christopher Wedge - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 2 directing, 1 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Denis Leary](https://film.one/person/denis-leary.md), [John Leguizamo](https://film.one/person/john-leguizamo.md), [Lori Forte](https://film.one/person/lori-forte.md), [Ray Romano](https://film.one/person/ray-romano.md) - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated) - **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as director, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 65 (3), 2010s 70 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wedge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185655, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917188/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5713 ## Coming up - *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027-01-28), as Scrat (voice) ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Ice Age*](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md) (73), [*Ice Age: The Meltdown*](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md) (61) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Chris Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator and voice actor. He co-founded Blue Sky Studios in 1987 and directed the studio's first computer-animated feature, *Ice Age* (2002), in which he also voiced the character Scrat. Wedge directed the Academy Award-winning short *Bunny* (1998) and the features *Robots* (2005) and *Epic* (2013). He later directed the live-action film *Monster Trucks* (2016). He has served as executive producer on subsequent *Ice Age* films and voiced Scrat across the franchise. Wedge was born on 20 March 1957 in Binghamton, New York. He studied film at the State University of New York at Purchase and computer graphics at Ohio State University. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Performed in (1) - *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), Fi1m 61, as Scrat (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md) ### Directed (2) — the average rests on these - *Robots* (2005), Fi1m 62, as Wonderbot / Phone Booth (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md) - *Ice Age* (2002), Fi1m 73, as Dodo / Scrat (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md) ### Produced (1) - *Rio* (2011), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md) ## Complete filmography (41) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Nimona* (2023), Thanks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/nimona.md) - *Ice Age: Scrat Tales* (2022), series, as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: The Last Adventure of Scrat (The End)* (2022), as Scrat (voice) - *The End* (2022), as Scrat (voice) - *Spies in Disguise* (2019), Executive Producer - *Ferdinand* (2017), Executive Producer - *Monster Trucks* (2016), Director - *Scrat: Spaced Out* (2016), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *More Nuts for Scrat* (2016), as Scrat (voice) - *Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade* (2016), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe* (2015), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D* (2015), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Rio 2* (2014), Executive Producer - *Epic* (2013), Director, Story - *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas* (2011), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2* (2011), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Rio* (2011), Executive Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md) - *Scrat's Continental Crack-Up* (2010), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Scrat in Love* (2009), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *The Scrat Pack* (2009), as Scrat (voice) - *Surviving Sid* (2008), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008), Executive Producer - *No Time for Nuts* (2006), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md) - *Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty* (2005), as Hacky (voice) · Executive Producer - *Robots* (2005), as Wonderbot / Phone Booth (voice) · Director — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md) - *Gone Nutty* (2002), as Scrat (voice) · Executive Producer - *Ice Age* (2002), as Dodo / Scrat (voice) · Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md) - *Bunny* (1998), as Bunny (voice) · Writer, Director - *Alien Resurrection* (1997), Visual Effects — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-resurrection.md) - *A Simple Wish* (1997), Visual Effects - *Joe's Apartment* (1996), Animation Director - *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Scrat (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) - *Balloon Guy* (1987), Director, Producer - *Tuber's Two Step* (1985), Producer, Animation, Director - *Tron* (1982), Visual Effects - *The Daymaker* (1982), Director, Animation, Writer ## Gallery - ![Chris Wedge](https://film.one/media/person/1265421/gallery-34df3bd7cb45.jpg) Chris Wedge — Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Chris_Wedge_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Chris Wedge](https://film.one/media/person/1265421/gallery-03a112005c1c.jpg) Chris Wedge — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated - 2003: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Ice Age* - 1999: Best Animated Short Film (won), for *Bunny* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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