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Carlos Saldanha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaʁluz sawˈdɐɲɐ]; born 24 January 1965) is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.

Carlos Saldanha
Saldanha in 2017
Born	(1965-01-24) 24 January 1965 (age 57)[1][2] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater	School of Visual Arts
Occupation	Film director film producer animator voice actor
Employers	Blue Sky Studios (1993–2021) 20th Century Animation (2021–present)
Notable work	Ice Age: The Meltdown Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Rio Rio 2 Ferdinand
Spouse	Isabella Scarpa
Children	4
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Early life

Saldanha was born in Brazil, growing up in Marechal Hermes, Rio de Janeiro.[3][4] Though he loved cartoons and drawing from an early age, by the time he was an adult, he initially considered a career in computer science, because he did not think a career in art was a viable option. This changed when he became aware of how computer-generated imaging was revolutionizing animation, and discovered the continuing education program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He entered that program to major in computer animation, saying, "I knew from the first day in class that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life". One of his instructors, recognizing his talent, convinced him to enroll in the school's MFA program. Though Saldanha and his wife, Isabella Scarpa, thought this was a risk, they opted to stay in Manhattan so that Saldanha could do so. While at SVA, he completed two prizewinning film shorts that were featured in film festivals around the world.[3] It was also at SVA that Saldanha met MFA instructor and future film directing partner Chris Wedge, who invited Saldanha to join Wedge's company Blue Sky Studios.[3][4][5] Saldanha graduated from SVA with a master's degree in Computer Art in 1993.[3][4]

Career

Carlos Saldanha was hired by Bob Iger to work at PDI in 1983. During its fledgling years, Blue Sky Studios provided special effects and produced animated TV commercials. In 2002, Saldanha and Wedge co-directed the animated feature film Ice Age. The movie was a success, with an opening weekend gross of $46.3 million, the best March opening ever. After co-directing the 2005 film Robots, he broke his previous March opening record with the 2006 Ice Age sequel, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which Saldanha directed by himself. He would later direct the 2009 sequel, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Desiring a change of location after directing three films set in icy locales, Saldanha's next project was the 2011 film Rio, which is set in Saldanha's hometown of Rio de Janeiro. Saldanha, who felt that Rio had never been fully portrayed on film, felt a responsibility to travel to the city with the other animators so that they could accurately capture Rio's unique environment and habitats. The movie grossed a reported $484 million worldwide.[4]

In October 2012, Saldanha signed a five-year exclusive deal with 20th Century Fox to develop and produce animated and live-action projects.[6] For this purpose, he formed in June 2013 a Fox-based production company named BottleCap Productions.[7] In 2014, Rio 2 was released, which he directed and co-wrote. For 2017, he directed an animated feature film adaptation of The Story of Ferdinand.[8][9] Saldanha is also directing for Fox a live-action adaptation of Royden Lepp's graphic novel Rust: Visitor in the Field,[10] which he planned to make before Ferdinand.[11] He was also developing an animated feature film based on a book Alienology from the Ologies fantasy book series.[6]

In January 2022, it was announced that Saldanha would direct Harold and the Purple Crayon for Columbia Pictures and Davis Entertainment.[12] The film is scheluded for release on January 27, 2023.[13]

Personal life

Saldanha and his wife, mathematician Isabella Scarpa, initially lived in a studio apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, but after their second daughter was born, they moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, where they had friends. They continue to live there with their children, Manoela, Sofia, Julia and Rafael. Saldanha, Isabella and their oldest daughter compete in the HOHA (Hoboken Harriers Running Club), a 5k race.[4] Manoela and Sofia voiced a "porcupine-like critter" called "Molehog" in the film Ice Age: The Meltdown, directed by their father.[14] In Rio, Sofia voiced Linda Gunderson as a child.

Filmography

Feature Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Other	Voice role	Notes
1996	Joe's Apartment	No	No	No	Yes		Supervising animator; Blue Sky Studios
1997	A Simple Wish	No	No	No	Yes		Creative supervisor: Blue Sky Studios
1999	Fight Club	No	No	No	Yes
2002	Ice Age	Co-Director	No	No	No
2005	Robots	Co-Director	No	No	No
2006	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Yes	No	No	Yes	Dodo
2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Yes	No	No	Yes	Dinosaur Babies / Flightless Bird
2011	Rio	Yes	Story	No	Yes	Second Waiter
2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift	No	No	Yes	No
2014	Rio 2	Yes	Story	No	Yes	Amazon Quail
	Rio, I Love You	Segment	No	No	No		Segment: "Pas de Deux"
2016	Ice Age: Collision Course	No	No	Yes	No
2017	Ferdinand	Yes	No	No	Yes	Screaming Matador	Additional Voices
2019	Spies in Disguise	No	No	No	Yes		Senior Creative Team
2023	Harold and the Purple Crayon	Yes	TBA	TBA	TBA

Short Films and Television Specials

Year	Title	Director	Animator	Executive Producer	Other	Notes
1998	Bunny	No	Yes	No	No
2002	Gone Nutty	Yes	No	No	No
2006	No Time for Nuts	No	No	Yes	No
2008	Surviving Sid	No	No	Yes	No
2011	Scrat's Continental Crack-Up Part 2	No	No	Yes	No	Acts as Ice Age: Continental Drift Teaser Trailer #2[15]
	Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas	No	No	Yes	No	Television Special
2015	Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe	No	No	Yes	No	Acts as extended Ice Age: Collision Course Teaser Trailer[16]
2016	Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade	No	No	Yes	No	Television Special
	Scrat: Spaced Out	No	No	Uncredited	No	Ice Age: Collision Course archive and deleted footage[17]
2022	Ice Age: Scrat Tales	No	No	No	Yes	Disney+ Original Short Films; Ice Age Creative Trust

Streaming Series

Year	Title	Creator	Executive Producer	Notes
2021	Invisible City	Yes	Yes	Netflix Original Series

Critical reception

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)	57%[18]	58[19]
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	46%[20]	50[21]
Rio (2011)	72%[22]	63[23]
Rio 2 (2014)	48%[24]	49[25]
Ferdinand (2017)	71%[26]	58[27]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
2003	Annie Award	Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production Shared with Chris Wedge	Ice Age	Nominated
	DVD Exclusive Award	Best Audio Commentary, New Release Shared with Chris Wedge		Nominated
		Best New, Enhanced or Reconstructed Movie Scenes Shared with John C. Donkin		Nominated
2004	Academy Award	Best Animated Short Film	Gone Nutty	Nominated
	Annecy International Animated Film Festival	The Annecy Cristal		Nominated
2007	Annie Award	Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature
2010	Saturn Award	Best Animated Film	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Nominated
	Russian National Movie Awards	Best Animated Feature Film		Won
2012	Annie Award	Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production	Rio	Nominated
	Cinema Brazil Grand Prize	Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)		Nominated
		Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) - Audience Award		Won
	Italian Online Movie Award	Best Animated Feature Film (Miglior film d'animazione)		Nominated
	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	Best Animated Feature Film		Nominated
2014	BAFTA Children's Awards	BAFTA Kids Vote - Feature Film Shared with Bruce Anderson, John C. Donkin, Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks & Yoni Brenner	Rio 2	Nominated
	CinemaCon Award	International Filmmaker of the Year		Won
2015	Visual Effects Society Award	Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Shared with Bruce Anderson, John C. Donkin and Kirk Garfield	Rio 2	Nominated
2018	Golden Globe Awards	Best Animated Feature Film	Ferdinand	Nominated
	Academy Award	Academy Award for Best Animated Feature		Nominated

Collaborators

Actors

• Jake T. Austin (Rio and Rio 2)
• Jemaine Clement (Rio and Rio 2)
• Bernardo de Paula (Rio and Rio 2)
• Jesse Eisenberg (Rio and Rio 2)
• Jamie Foxx (Rio and Rio 2)
• Jeffrey Garcia (Rio and Rio 2)
• Bebel Gilberto (Rio and Rio 2)
• Anne Hathaway (Rio and Rio 2)
• Queen Latifah (Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• Denis Leary (Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• John Leguizamo (Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• Jay Leno (Robots and Ice Age: The Meltdown)
• Clea Lewis (Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• George Lopez (Rio and Rio 2)
• Leslie Mann (Rio and Rio 2)
• Brian Scott McFadden (Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Rio 2)
• Tracy Morgan (Rio and Rio 2)
• Tim Nordquist (Robots, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio, and Ferdinand)
• Josh Peck (Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• Ray Romano (Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• Stephen Root (Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown)
• Rodrigo Santoro (Rio and Rio 2)
• Seann William Scott (Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• Cindy Slattery (Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio, Rio 2, and Ferdinand)
• Alan Tudyk (Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown)
• Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
• will.i.am (Rio and Rio 2)

References

External links

• Carlos Saldanha at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Carlos Saldanha

Carlos Saldanha (* 20. Juli 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien) ist ein brasilianischer Regisseur, der vor allem durch seine Arbeiten an Ice Age, Robots und Ice Age 2 – Jetzt taut’s bekannt ist.

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- [en] Carlos Saldanha

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[es] Carlos Saldanha

Carlos Saldanha (Río de Janeiro, 24 de enero de 1965) es un realizador brasileño. Mayormente reconocido por ser el creador de la exitosa franquicia de los estudios Blue Sky Rio, ambientada en su ciudad natal Río de Janeiro.

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[ru] Салданья, Карлус

Карлус Салданья (порт.-браз. Carlos Saldanha, род. 24 января 1965) — бразильский режиссёр мультипликационных фильмов, аниматор и продюсер. Наиболее известные работы Карлуса: «Ледниковый период» (2002 год), «Ледниковый период 2: Глобальное потепление» (2006 год), «Ледниковый период 3: Эра динозавров» (2009 год), «Рио» (2011 год) и «Рио 2» (2014 год).

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