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| Born | John Christian Wedge March 20, 1957 Binghamton, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Purchase Ohio State University |
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| Years active | 1982–present |
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| Spouse | Jeanne Markel[1] |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Bunny (1998) |
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John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957)[2] is an American filmmaker, animator, voice actor, film director and a co-founder of defunct computer animation studio Blue Sky Studios, which was active from 1987 to 2021, and whose mascot, Scrat, a fictional rodent character in the Ice Age franchise, he has voiced since its debut in 2002..
At Blue Sky, he is best known for directing the short film Bunny (1998), which won him an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film that year, the feature films Ice Age (2002) (which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003 and helped launch a franchise), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). He also directed Monster Trucks (2016) from Paramount Pictures in a brief break/hiatus from Blue Sky.
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TNYTBunnyOscarwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9781557836717. Archived from the original on May 31, 2023. Retrieved May 29, 2023.