| Carlos Saldanha | |
|---|---|
 Saldanha at the 90th Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon | |
| 2 Nominations | |
| Role | Director |
| Born | July 20, 1968 |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Carlos Saldanha is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian director of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). In Rio, his daughter, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, voices Linda Gunderson as a child. In June 2013 he formed a Fox-based production company, named BottleCap Productions.
- 76th Academy Awards, 2003
- Best Animated Short — Gone Nutty (shared with John C. Donkin)
- 90th Academy Awards, 2017
- Best Animated Feature — Ferdinand