Empire magazine's entry for Gromit placing the dog first in their list of "the 50 best animated movie characters". [25] The music featured in every film was written by British film composer Julian Nott. The theme song was used to wake up astronauts aboard space shuttle mission STS-132 in May 2010. [75] It has been suggested on BBC Radio 4's PM that the theme should become the England football supporters' song, instead of the main title theme of The Great Escape. [76] Other media [ edit ] Video games [ edit ] Aardman and Fictioneers announce cast for the Big Fix up". 29 June 2020. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021 . Retrieved 28 December 2020. The 78th Academy Awards (2006) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 5 March 2006 . Retrieved 12 March 2017.

Party time! Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures has launched!". www.telltale.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Wallace and Gromit in Queen's Diamond Jubilee film". The Daily Telegraph. London. 4 May 2012. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.The nostalgic quality of Wallace and Gromit's world has been compared to 1950s Beanotown. [38] Filmography [ edit ] Main series [ edit ] Film The 81st Academy Awards (2009) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 22 February 2009 . Retrieved 12 March 2017. The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 21 March 1994 . Retrieved 12 March 2017. Wallace & Gromit Celebrate the Jubilee with the National Trust!". wallaceandgromit.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020 . Retrieved 27 January 2020. Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol. 3 @ Titan Comics". titan-comics.com.

In 2013 and 2014 the pair appeared in a nationwide TV, press and cinema campaign promoting the British government's "Holidays at Home are Great" directive, called Wallace & Gromit's Great UK Adventure. [112] In 2015, Shaun starred in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime at Bristol Hippodrome. [101] Additional crew [ edit ] Film Eames, Tom (16 May 2014). "Wallace and Gromit may end due to Peter Sallis's health". Digital Spy . Retrieved 16 May 2014. Museum set from The Wrong Trousers, on display at the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire

The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1991. The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave followed. The full-length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in 2005. The latter three each earned Academy Awards. The Wallace and Gromit films are shot using the stop motion animation technique. [72] After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. As is common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace and Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce a faux motion blur. Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace and Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day per animator. The feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 15 months to make. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit PlayStation 2". IGN. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011 . Retrieved 26 December 2010.