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Aardman Animations, Ltd. (also known as Aardman Studios, simply Aardman or Aardman Animation) is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films made using stop-motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $134.7 million per film.[1] Aardman's films have been consistently very well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, Chicken Run, being their top-grossing film,[2] as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.[3]

Aardman Animation, Bristol, Headquarters

Aardman Animations' headquarters in Bristol

History[]

1972–1996[]

Aardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On. The company name originates from the name of their nerdish Superman character in that sequence.[4] The process of using clay animation to produce a segment called "Greeblies" (1975) became the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. Around the same time, Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks. Aardman also created the title sequence for The Great Egg Race[5] and supplied animation for the multiple award-winning music video of Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer".[6] They produced the music video for the song "My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone in 1987. Also in the 1980s, they created the trombone-playing character "Douglas" in a television commercial for Lurpak butter.[7][8]

Later Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4, including the Conversation Pieces series. These five shorts worked in the same area as the Animated Conversations pieces, but were more sophisticated. Lord and Sproxton began hiring more animators at this point; three of the newcomers made their directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. Of the five Lip Synch shorts, two were directed by Lord, one by Barry Purves, one by Richard Goleszowski and one by Nick Park.

In 1991, Park's short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to win an Academy Award. Park also developed the clay modelled shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace and Gromit, a comical pair of friends: Wallace being a naive English inventor with a love of cheese, and Gromit his best friend, the intelligent but silent dog. These films include A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), the latter two winning Academy Awards.[9][10]

1997–2007[]

In December 1997, Aardman and DreamWorks (later DreamWorks Animation) announced that their companies were teaming up to co-finance and distribute Chicken Run, Aardman's first feature film, which had already been in pre-production for a year.[11] On 27 October 1999, Aardman and DreamWorks signed a $250 million[12] deal to make an additional four films that were estimated to be completed during the next 12 years.[13] Along with the deal their first project was announced, titled The Tortoise and the Hare. Intended to be based on Aesop's fable and directed by Richard Goleszowski,[14] it was paused two years later because of the script problems.[15] On 23 June 2000, Chicken Run was released to a great critical and financial success. In 2005, after ten years of absence, Wallace and Gromit returned in Academy Award-winning The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The following year Flushed Away, Aardman's first computer-animated feature, was released.

On 1 October 2006, right before the release of Flushed Away, The New York Times reported that due to creative differences DreamWorks Animation and Aardman would not be extending their contract.[16] The deal was officially terminated on 30 January 2007.[17] According to an Aardman spokesperson: "The business model of DreamWorks no longer suits Aardman and vice versa. But the split couldn't have been more amicable."[17] Unofficial reasons for departure were weak performances of the last two movies, for which DreamWorks had to take writedowns,[17] and citing the article, "Aardman executives chafed at the creative control DreamWorks tried to exert, particularly with Flushed Away..."[16] The studio had another film in development, Crood Awakening (eventually The Croods), which had been announced in 2005, with John Cleese co-writing the screenplay.[18] With the end of the partnership, the film's rights reverted to DreamWorks.[17]

On 10 October 2005, a serious fire at a storage facility used by Aardman and other Bristol-based companies destroyed over 30 years of props, models, and scenery often built by the Bristol-based Cod Steaks. This warehouse was used for storage of past projects and so did not prevent the production of their current projects at the time. In addition, the company's library of finished films was stored elsewhere and was undamaged. An electrical fault was determined to be the cause of the blaze.[19] Referring to the 2004 South Asia earthquake and tsunami, Park was quoted as saying, "Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."[20][21][22]

From 2006 to 2007, the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, had an exhibit featuring the works of Aardman Studios. Sproxton and Lord visited the exhibit in May 2006 and met with animator Hayao Miyazaki during the visit.[23] Miyazaki has long been a fan of Aardman Animations' works.[24]

2007–present[]

In April 2007, Aardman signed[25] and in 2010 renewed[26] a three-year deal with Sony Pictures to finance, co-produce, and distribute feature films. The next year, Aardman released a new Wallace and Gromit short film, called A Matter of Loaf and Death. The first film made in partnership with Sony was the computer-animated Arthur Christmas (2011), which is Aardman's first 3D feature film. 2012 saw the release of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits), Aardman's first 3D stop-motion film and Peter Lord's first film as a director since Chicken Run. Two additional films were announced in June 2007: The Cat Burglars, a stop-motion animated heist comedy film directed by Steve Box, about cat burglars that steal milk, and their plans to pull off 'the great milk float robbery'; and an untitled Nick Park project (which would later become Early Man).[27]

The studio is also known to provide generous resources and training to young animators by providing awards at various animation festivals. For example, The Aardman Award at the UK's Animex Festival in Teesside provides story consultation to a promising young animator for their next film.[28]

In 2008, Aardman joined with Channel 4 and Lupus Films to launch a user-generated content animation portal called 4mations.[29] They also designed the BBC One Christmas Idents for that year, which featured Wallace and Gromit to tie in with the showing of the new Wallace and Gromit film called A Matter of Loaf and Death on Christmas Day at 8:30pm. In April 2008, Aardman launched the Aardman YouTube channel, which is a YouTube Partner channel featuring the entire Creature Comforts TV series, the Morph series, Cracking Contraptions and clips from the Wallace and Gromit films.[30] From December 2008, Aardman also started posting various flash games on Newgrounds, the majority of which are based on Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.[31]

In 2009, Nintendo announced that Aardman would make twelve short films using only Flipnote Studio. The films were posted on Flipnote's Hatena web service provider. The first film was called The Sandwich Twins and was released on 16 September 2009. The remaining eleven films were released on a weekly basis until Christmas, and can also be downloaded using Hatena.[32] In the same year, the headquarters of the studio moved into a new building, designed by Alec French architects, in Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, although work needing large-scale sets is still carried out in sheds in Aztec West and Bedminster.[33] In April 2009, Aardman Animations edited the existing Watch identity by UKTV to make the inflatable eyeball (called "Blinky") in the idents blink.

In October 2013, Peter Lord (co-founder of Aardman Animations) created a fundraising project on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The campaign has a target of £75,000 which will be used to fund 12 new one-minute episodes of Morph. Lord was hoping to start production in January 2014 using the original stop-frame animation. Backers of the project will receive a variety of rewards, including early access to the new animations and a small box of clay used in the production, depending on the individual's level of funding.[34][35]

In 2015, the studio bought a majority share in New York-based animation studio Nathan Love,[36] announcing the merger with a short film called Introducing: Aardman Nathan Love on 25 September of the same year[37] of that being that the British stop-motion animated series Digby Dragon debuted on Nick Jr. UK in 2016.

In advance of Aardman's fortieth anniversary, BBC One aired the one-hour television documentary A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman, first broadcast in December 2015. Narrated by Julie Walters, this career retrospective includes commentary by the company's founders and staff, as well as various friends, fans and colleagues including Terry Gilliam, John Lasseter, and Matt Groening.[38][39]

From 29 June 2017 to 29 October 2017, an exhibition entitled "Wallace and Gromit and Friends" was shown at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. A report on this exhibition was shown on Australian ABC News Breakfast on Wednesday, 28 June, featuring an 8-minute interview with producers Peter Lord and David Sproxton.[40] The exhibition revealed that in Nick Park's very early sketches, Gromit was originally a cat, but Park soon changed him into a dog, since it was generally agreed that a dog was clearly more suitable as a loyal pet/companion than a cat and also because a dog would be easier to make and animate in Plasticine. Embedded in the ABC News article is a video interview with Lord and Sproxton,[41] which gives information not only on Wallace and Gromit, but also Shaun the Sheep and others.

On 9 November 2018, Aardman Animations announced that Peter Lord and David Sproxton would be transferring majority ownership of the company to its employees in order to keep the studio independent.[42] In January 2019, Lord and Sproxton released a book detailing the history of the studio, called A Grand Success! The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time.[43]

In December 2020, Netflix announced an Aardman Christmas musical special entitled Robin Robin.[44] The 30-minute short, starring Bronte Carmichael, Richard E. Grant, Gillian Anderson and Adeel Akhtar, was released on the platform on November 24, 2021.

On 20 January 2022, Netflix announced a sequel to Chicken Run entitled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.[45] The film, starring Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi, is slated to premiere on the platform in 2023. A new, untitled Wallace and Gromit film was also confirmed to be 'in the works', and is currently slated for a 2024 release.

Company name[]

The company name is taken from one of its early characters, a superhero created for Vision On in 1972.[46] Unlike the claymation productions that the company are famous for, Aardman was cel-animated.[47] Peter Lord has stated that the most interesting thing about the company name is that it "means nothing" and is only a joke that two teenagers found funny. He has stated that the name came from a combination of "Aardvark" and "Superman" for the reason that they found aardvark to be a particularly funny word. Aardman Animations became their company name when the BBC asked them to whom they should make their first cheque out.[48] Co-founder David Sproxton has claimed that the name was a result of being unable to "find another word with more A's in it than 'aardvarkTemplate:'" as a schoolboy.[49]

Non-Aardman productions by Aardman directors[]

A number of Aardman directors have worked at other studios, taking the distinctive Aardman style with them.

Aardman's Steve Box directed the animated music video for the Spice Girls' final single as a five-piece, "Viva Forever". Widely regarded as the Spice Girls' most critically acclaimed song,Template:Citation needed the video took over five months to produce, considerably longer than the group's box office hit movie, Spice World. He is also the co-creator of the Finnish-British animated series Moominvalley, based on the Moomins books.

Barry Purves, director of the Aardman short Next, also directed Hamilton Mattress for Harvest Films. The film, a half-hour special that premiered on Christmas Day 2001, was produced by Chris Moll, producer of the Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers. The models were provided by Mackinnon & Saunders, a firm that did the same for Bob the Builder and Corpse Bride.

Similarly, Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire, a BBC Bristol/Comic Relief production, was directed by Richard Goleszowski, creator of Rex the Runt. Its sequel, Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe, was directed by Peter Peake, whose directorial credits for Aardman include Pib and Pog and Humdrum.

Aardman alumni also produced many of the claymation shorts used in the 1986–1990 American television series Pee-wee's Playhouse.[50][51]

Filmography[]

Feature films[]

Released films[]

# Title Release date In partnership with Distributor Budget Gross Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1 Chicken Run June 30, 2000 DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures (International (except for Europe))

Pathé (Europe)

$45 million $224.8 million 97% 88
2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit October 14, 2005 DreamWorks Pictures $30 million $192.6 million 95% 87
3 Flushed Away December 1, 2006 Paramount Pictures $149 million $178 million 73% 74
4 Arthur Christmas November 11, 2011 Sony Pictures Animation Columbia Pictures(via Sony Pictures Releasing) AND DreamWorks$100 million $147 million 92% 69
5 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! March 28, 2012 $55 million $123 million 86% 73
6 Shaun the Sheep Movie August 5, 2015 N/A StudioCanalLionsgate (USA) $25 million $106.2 million 99% 81
7 Early Man February 16, 2018 $50 million $54.6 million 82% 68
8 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon February 14, 2020 StudioCanalNetflix (USA and Latin America) N/Y $43 million 96% 79

Note: Rights to the Aardman films produced with DreamWorks Animation are now owned by Universal Pictures, following NBCUniversal's purchase of DreamWorks in 2016.

Upcoming films[]

Title Release date Notes
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget 2023 Distributed by Netflix, co-production with StudioCanal[52][53]
Untitled Wallace and Gromit film 2024 Distributed by Netflix[54][55]
Untitled Gurinder Chadha film TBA Distributed by Netflix, co-production with Bend It Films[56][57][58]

TV Shows[]

Title Premiere date End date Co-production(s) Network
The Great Egg Race (opening titles) 1979 1986 BBC
The Amazing Adventures of Morph Template:Dts Template:Dts
Round the Bend (segments) Template:Dts Template:Dts ITV
The Morph Files Template:Dts Template:Dts BBC
Rex the Runt Template:Dts Template:Dts BBC Two
Angry Kid (original run) Template:Dts 2007 Channel 4BBC Three
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions Template:Dts Christmas 2002 BBC One
The Presentators Template:Dts Template:Dts Nickelodeon
Creature Comforts Template:Dts Template:Dts ITV
Planet Sketch 2005 2008 Decode Entertainment CITV
Purple and Brown 2006 2007 Nickelodeon
Pib and Pog 2006 2006 BBC
Shaun the Sheep Template:Dts present CBBC (Series 1-5)

Netflix (series 6)

Creature Comforts America[59] Template:Dts Template:Dts CBS
Chop Socky Chooks Template:Dts Template:Dts Decode Entertainment Cartoon NetworkTeletoon
A Town Called Panic Template:Dts Template:Dts Nickelodeon
Timmy Time Template:Dts Template:Dts CBeebies (Series 1-3)
Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention Template:Dts Template:Dts BBC
Canimals[60][61] June 9, 2011 present BRB Internacional
DC Nation Shorts[62] ("DC's World Funnest" shorts) Template:Dts Template:Dts Cartoon Network
Shaun the Sheep 3D[63] Template:Dts Template:Dts Nintendo Video
Shaun The Sheep Championsheeps[64] Template:Dts Template:Dts CBBC
Brand New Morph/The Epic Adventures of Morph[65] Template:Dts present YouTube (series 1 Sky Kids (series 2-present)
Angry Kid (revival series)[66] Template:Dts November 8, 2019 Mr Morris Productions
Golden Morph[67] August 7, 2015 present YouTube
Morph: The Lost Tapes[68] November 6, 2015 January 7, 2016 YouTube
Meet David Attenborough[69] May 6, 2016 May 8, 2016 BBC One
Counterfeit Cat[70] May 12, 2016 January 22, 2017 Disney XD
Lloyd of the Flies[71] September 20, 2022 present Cyber Group Studios CITV
The Very Small Creatures[72] March 4, 2022 present Sky Kids Sky Kids

Short films[]

Template:Div col

  • Vision On (1972–76)
  • Aard-Man (1972–73)
  • Greeblies (1974–75)
  • Take Hart (1977–82)
  • Animated Conversations: Down and Out (1977)
  • Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl (1978)
  • Conversation Pieces: On Probation (1983)
  • Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch (1983)
  • Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days (1983)
  • Conversation Pieces: Early Bird (1983)
  • Conversation Pieces: Late Edition (1983)
  • Hartbeat (1984–93)
  • Sweet Disaster: Babylon (1986)
  • Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
  • Creature Comforts (1989)
  • War Story (1989)
  • Going Equipped (1990)
  • Ident (1990)
  • Next (1990)
  • Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1991)[73]
  • Rex the Runt: Dreams (1991)[73]
  • Adam (1992)
  • Loves Me, Loves Me Not (1993)
  • Not Without My Handbag (1993)
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
  • Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
  • The Art Box Bunch (1995)
  • Rex the Runt: North by North Pole (1996)[74]
  • Pop (1996)
  • Wat's Pig (1996)
  • Owzat (1997)
  • Stage Fright (1997)
  • Al Dente (1998)
  • Smart Hart (1999-2000)
  • Humdrum (1999)
  • Minotaur and Little Nerkin (1999)
  • The Deadline (2001)
  • Len's Lens (2002)
  • The Non-Voters (for the BBC Election coverage) (2004)
  • The Adventures of Jeffrey (2005)
  • Angry Kid: Who do you think you are? (2004)[75]
  • The Pearce Sisters (2007)
  • Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
  • Gulp (2011)
  • The Itch of The Golden Nit (2011)
  • Pythagasaurus (2011)
  • Fly (2011)
  • DC's World Funnest ("DC Nation Shorts") (2012–2014)
  • Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise (2011)
  • Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue (2012)
  • Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012)
  • The Pirates! So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012)
  • Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels (2012)
  • Darkside (2013)[76][77]
  • Sphere (2013)
  • Zombie Fairy (2014)[78]
  • Ray's Big Idea (2014)[79]
  • Special Delivery (2015)[80]
  • Full ANL (2015)[81]
  • Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015)
  • Aardman Nathan Love (2015)
  • Mac (2016)[82]
  • NSPCC (2016)[83]
  • Visualise This (2017)[84]
  • Robin Robin (2021)[85]
  • Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021)[86]

Template:Div col end

Music videos[]

Template:Div col

  • "Sledgehammer" (1986)
  • "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (1987)
  • "Barefootin" (1987)
  • "In Your Wildest Dreams" (1996)
  • "Viva Forever" (1998)
  • "Gridlock" (1999)
  • "Life's A Treat" (2007)
  • "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Justin Bieber Cover)" (2011)
  • "Life's A Treat (Rizzle Kicks Remix)" (2015)
  • "Feels Like Summer" (2015)
  • "OFFF Barcelona 2016 Main Titles" (2017) [87]
  • "Daddy" (2019) [88]

Template:Div col end

Commercials[]

This is a selected list of commercials produced by Aardman. By 2000, the studio had produced over 100 commercials, at a rate of 15–20 spots per year.[89] In the year 2009 alone, the studio produced 106 commercials.[90] Template:Div col

  • Lurpak (1986)[90][91]
  • Hamlet (1987)[90]
  • Jordans (company) (1987)
  • Domestos (1987)[90]
  • Electricity Board's "Heat Electric"[90]
  • Enterprise 64
  • Cadbury Creme Egg
  • Cadbury's Crunchie[92]
  • Kellogg's Rice Krispies
  • Lyle's Golden Syrup
  • Weetos
  • Smarties "Smartiepants" (1995)[93]
  • Walkers Potato Crisps and Snacks
  • Quavers (1996)
  • Britannia Building Society (1997)
  • Glico Pucchin Pudding (Japan, 1998, 2000)
  • Chevron Cars[89][94]
  • Dairylea
  • Lipton[89]
  • Serta Counting Sheep
  • Pringles
  • Burger King[95]
  • Polo Mints[96]
  • British Telecom
  • Lego
  • Jacob's Cream Crackers[97]
  • Kellogg's Fruit Twistables
  • Hubba Bubba[98][99]
  • PG Tips "Moving-in Interview", "Cupboard" (2002–2005)[100][101][102][103]
  • Weetabix
  • Npower (2009, 2011)[90][104][105]
  • National Accident Helpline featuring Underdog (2009)
  • Change4Life
  • Hotels.com (2009)[106]
  • Nokia "Dot" (2010)[90][107]
  • VisitEngland (2013, 2015)[108]
  • McDonald's Happy Meal (2013)[109]
  • Bloo[110]
  • Electrolux[111]
  • Bristol Ageing Better (2015)[112][113]
  • United Nations "We Have a Plan" (2015)[114][115][116]
  • What if...Santa Forgot"[117]
  • Sinutab/Sudafed
  • Prevacid
  • Zantac

Template:Div col end

Idents[]

  • BBC Two Christmas idents (1995)
  • BBC One Christmas idents (2001, 2008, 2021)
  • BBC Three idents (2003)
  • CBBC idents (2007)
  • Watch idents (2009)
  • BBC Two 'Curve' idents (2018)
  • Nickelodeon idents (2021)

Apps[]

  • Wizards vs Aliens: The Eye of Bashtarr (2013)[118]
  • Escargot Escape Artistes (2015)[119]

Franchises[]

Title Release Date
Morph 1977–present
Creature Comforts 1989–2011
Wallace and Gromit 1989–present
Angry Kid 1998–2019
Chicken Run 2000–present
Shaun the Sheep 2007–present
Timmy Time 2009–2012

Video games[]

Title Release Date Platform[s] Developer Publisher
Chicken Run 2000 PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, PC Blitz Games Eidos Interactive
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo 2003 PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC Frontier Developments BAM! Entertainment
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 PS2, Xbox, Mobile Phone Frontier Developments Konami
Flushed Away 2006 PS2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, DS Monkey Bar Games D3 Publisher
Shaun the Sheep 2008 DS Art Co., Ltd D3 Publisher
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures 2009 Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, iOS Telltale Games Telltale Games
Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head 2009 DS Art Co., Ltd D3 Publisher
Home Sheep Home 2 2011 iOS, PC Aardman Digital (PC), Mobile Pie., Ltd (iOS port) Chillingo
11-11: Memories Retold 2018 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One DigixArt and Aardman Animations Bandai Namco Entertainment

Awards and nominations[]

Academy Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2006 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Animated Feature Nick Park and Steve Box Template:Won
2013 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Peter Lord rowspan=2 Template:Nominated
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
2021 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Will Becher, Richard Phelan and Paul Kewley Template:Nominated

Golden Globe Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2001 Chicken Run Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton rowspan=3 Template:Nom
2012 Arthur Christmas Best Animated Feature Film Sarah Smith
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak

BAFTA Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2001 Chicken Run Best British Film Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton rowspan=2 Template:Nom
Best Visual Effects Paddy Eason, Mark Nelmes, and Dave Alex Riddett
2006 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best British Film Nick Park, Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Claire Jennings, Bob Baker and Mark Burton Template:Won
2007 Flushed Away Best Animated Film David Bowers and Sam Fell rowspan=4 Template:Nom
2012 Arthur Christmas Sarah Smith
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
2020 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Will Becher, Richard Phelan and Paul Kewley

Annie Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2000 Chicken Run Best Animated Feature Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton rowspan=3 align="center" Template:Nom
Directing in an Animated Feature Production Nick Park and Peter Lord
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Karey Kirkpatrick
2006 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Animated Feature Nick Park, Claire Jennings, Peter Lord, Carla Shelley and David Sproxton rowspan=10 Template:Won
Annie Award for Best Character Animation Claire Billet
Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Nick Park
Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Music in a Feature Production Julian Nott
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Phil Lewis
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Bob Persichetti
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Peter Sallis as Wallace
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Nick Park, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Bob Baker
Best Character Animation Jay Grace and Christopher Sadler
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Michael Salter rowspan=4 align="center" Template:Nom
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula Tottington
Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine
Nicholas Smith as Reverend Clement Hedges
2007 Flushed Away Writing in an Animated Feature Production Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies rowspan=4 align="center" Template:Won
Voice Acting in a Feature Production Ian McKellen as "The Toad"
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Pierre-Olivier Vincent
Best Animated Effects Scott Cegielski
Directing in a Feature Production David Bowers and Sam Fell rowspan=5 align="center" Template:Nominated
Best Character Animation in a Feature Production "Flushed Away"
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Simon Wells
2012 Arthur Christmas Best Animated Feature Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Carla Shelley and Steve Pegram
Voice Acting in a Feature Production Ashley Jensen
Bill Nighy Template:Won
Storyboarding in a Feature Production Kris Pearn rowspan=23 align="center" Template:Nominated
Character Design In an Animated Film Peter de Sève
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Sarah Smith and Peter Baynham
2013 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Best Animated Feature Julie Lockhart, Peter Lord and David Sproxton
Character Animation in a Feature Production Will Becher
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Norman Garwood and Matt Perry
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Gideon Defoe
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Best Animated Feature Julie Lockhart and Paul Kewley
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Matt Perry and Gavin Lines
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Sim-Evan Jones
2019 Early Man Best Animated Feature Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Carla Shelley and Richard Beek
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production Howard Jones, Dave Alex Riddett, Grant Hewlett, Pat Andrew and Elena Vitanza Chiarani
Directing in a Feature Production Nick Park
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production Laurie Sitzia
Music in a Feature Production Harry Gregson-Williams and Tom Howe
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Matt Perry and Richard Edmunds
Voice Acting in a Feature Production Eddie Redmayne
2021 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Best Animated Feature — Independent Paul Kewley
Writing in an Animated Feature Production Mark Burton and Jon Brown
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Sim Evan-Jones

Critic's Choice Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2001 Chicken Run Best Animated Feature Nick Park and Peter Lord rowspan=2 Template:Won
2006 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Park and Steve Box
2007 Flushed Away David Bowers and Sam Fell rowspan=3 Template:Nom
2012 Arthur Christmas Sarah Smith
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
Special Achievement Award for the 2015 Critics' Choice Award[120] Shaun the Sheep Movie Template:Won
2021 Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie Best Animated Movie Richard Phelan and Will Becher Template:Nominated

Golden Tomato Awards[]

Year Film Category Result
2000 Chicken Run Best Film rowspan=3 Template:Won
2006 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Animated Movie
Best Wide Release
2007 Flushed Away Best Animated Movie Template:Draw
2012 Arthur Christmas Template:Won
2013 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Template:Draw
Top UK Films Template:Draw
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie Template:Won
Best Animated Movie Template:Draw
2021 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Template:Draw

Kids' Choice Awards[]

Year Film Category Recipient(s) Result
2000 Chicken Run Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie Mel Gibson Template:Nom
2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Favorite Animated Movie Template:Nom

Unproduced projects[]

type Series Title Description
film original project The Tortoise and the Hare The Tortoise and the Hare. Intended to be based on Aesop's fable and directed by Richard Goleszowski,[121] it was put on hold two years later because of script issues.[122]
film The Twits Crood Awakening The film was announced in May 2005, under the working title Crood Awakening,[123] originally a stop motion film, being made by Aardman Animations[124] as a part of a "five film deal" with DreamWorks Animation. John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco had been working together on a feature based on Roald Dahl's story The Twits,[125] a project that never went into production. Later released as Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods.
film original project The Cat Burglars An animated heist action-adventure black comedy film directed by Steve Box and Darren Walsh, about 6 cat burglars that steal milk, and their plans to pull off 'the great milk float robbery' before some humans neuter them.[126] On 9 June 2022 it was announce that the project is being revival as a Netflix’s CGI original.[127]
film original project The Scarecrow and his Servant A adaptation of a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant. As he goes on his quest he tries to reach Spring Valley to claim it for his own. He has many troubles along the way such as a bird who ate his brain and being on a deserted island.
film The Pirates! Sequels to The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! By August 2011, Aardman Animations had been already working on a sequel idea for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!,[128] and by June 2012, a story had been prepared, awaiting Sony to back the project.[129] Eventually, Sony decided not to support the project due to insufficient international earnings. According to director Peter Lord, "it got close, but not quite close enough. I was all fired up for doing more. It was such fun to do! We actually have a poster for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Cowboys!. That would have been just great."[130]

Books[]

  • Tristan Davies, Nick Park, Nick Newman (1997); Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper. Adler's Foreign Books. Template:ISBN
  • Peter Lord; Brian Sibley (1998). Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation. Thames & Hudson Ltd. Template:ISBN
  • Tristan Davies; Nick Newman (1998). Wallace & Gromit in Anoraknophobia. Adler's Foreign Books. Template:ISBN
  • Tristan Davies; Nick Newman (1999). Wallace & Gromit: Crackers in Space. Hodder & Stoughton. Template:ISBN
  • Andy Lane (2003). Creating Creature Comforts. Boxtree Ltd. Template:ISBN
  • Andy Lane (2004). The World of Wallace & Gromit. Boxtree Ltd. Template:ISBN
  • Andy Lane; Paul Simpson (2005). The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Titan Books Ltd. Template:ISBN
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