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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 “I…
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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.
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2027
Ice Age: Boiling Point
Movie Director
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2022
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
Movie Director
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2021
INVINCIBLE
TV show Supervising Producer
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2016
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
Movie Producer
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2015
Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D
Movie Producer
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2014
Rio 2
Movie Producer
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2012
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Movie Producer
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2011
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
Movie Producer
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2011
Rio
Movie Producer
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2009
Falling for Scratte
Movie Self
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2009
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Movie Producer
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2008
Surviving Sid
Movie Producer
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2006
No Time for Nuts
Movie Producer
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2005
Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
Movie Producer
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2005
Robots
Movie Producer
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2002
Gone Nutty
Movie Producer
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2002
Ice Age
Movie Associate Producer
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1998
Bunny
Movie Technical Advisor
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1988
Dinosaur Stuff
Movie Director
