![]() His next two W&G adventures (‘ The Wrong Trousers(1993), A Close Shave (1995)) would garnish two more Oscars for Park. Park lost the Academy Award to himself winning for his hilarious and touching Creature Comforts (1989), a montage of interviews with opinionated zoo animals. A Grand Day Out received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short. Nick Park, the creative genius behind W&G first presented the pair in A Grand Day Out (1989)’ where short of cheese and without a weekend plan, Wallace builds a rocket, loads up on crackers and head off to harvest the moon (which we know is made of Wallace’s favorite substance, cheese). The W&G shorts recount the adventures of Wallace, an eccentric, soft-hearted inventor, and Gromit, his loyal, silent dog. While they enjoy a cult following in the USA, W&G went wide on October 5th with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Since their introduction in 1989, Wallace & Gromit, the claymation duo from Aardman Studios, have become British icons, as recognized in the UK as Big Ben and the Queen Mother. From my first viewing of a grainy copy of “The Wrong Trousers” I was hooked. Weeks later a friend of mine made the conversion.
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