Chris Wedge

Born: 1958
Where: USA

The Oscar-winning film-maker landed a box office smash with his animated feature debut Ice Age.

A graduate in computer graphics from Ohio State University, Wedge began his career as a stop-motion animatorand went on to work on Disney's Tron.

His 1998 short - Bunny - won an Oscar and boasted the revolutionary computer programme radiosity.

As a creative supervisor, he worked on the features Alien Resurrection, A Simple Wish and Star Trek Insurrection as well as numerous commercials.

He made his feature debut with the Oscar-nominated Ice Age, which featured the voices of John Leguizamo and Denis Leary.

In 2005, he made the animated feature Robots featuring the voices of Halle Berry and Ewan McGregor.