Chris Wedge

Chris Wedge quietly shaped a chunk of my generation's imagination. As lead animator on Tron, he helped pioneer computer graphics when the field barely existed, then won an Oscar for the short Bunny and co-founded Blue Sky Studios. Ice Age, with that endlessly hapless Scrat, plus Robots and Epic, gave him a body of work that married technical innovation with real warmth. What impresses me is that he could both push the craft forward and tell stories that land emotionally with kids. Filmmakers who balance engineering and heart are rare, and Wedge belongs firmly in that category.

Name (English)

Chris Wedge

Name (Japanese)

クリス・ウェッジ

Reading

くりす・うぇっじ

Born

March 20, 1957 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Binghamton, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / film producer / screenwriter / animator

High school

Fayetteville–Manlius High School

University

State University of New York at Purchase

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Wedge
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185655

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film director
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.