On this side you will find a lot of information about the three adventures of Wallace & Gromit. It seems so, that in the near future Nick Park don't want to produce a new moving picture, so we all have to be content with what we've got: A Grand day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. More details about these short films you'll get in the Animations section. At least one documentation exists, on which Nick Park show some inner secrets of the Making of Wallace and Gromit. Check out the Documentation section. In most countries the adventures of Wallace & Gromit got their theatral release in combination with a bunch of other Aardman Animations. An (uncomplete) list is available in the Collections section. Finally, short sections with Promotion Campaigns and Guest Appearances let end the biography of Wallace & Gromit in the movies.

Animations

By clicking on the titles you get synopses of the adventure choosen. All synopses are written by Lestat and available on his faboulous webpage! But be aware these synopses are complete, so could ruin the episodes for you!

A Grand Day Out (1992) UK, time:23 min directed and written by Nick Park
The Wrong Trousers (1993) UK, time: 30 min written by Nick Park & Bob Baker, directed by Nick Park
A Close Shave (1995) UK, time: 30 min written by Nick Park & Bob Baker, directed by Nick Park

• The Crew

  

• The Awards

  A Grand Day Out

  • BAFTA 1990 Best Short Animated Film
  • Zagreb 1990 Best Children's Film
  • Hiroshima 1990 Best Film Over 15 Minutes
  • Angers 1990 Best Animated Film
  • BP Expo 1990 Best Animated Film
  • British Animation Awards 1990 Best Film Over 15 Minutes

  The Wrong Trousers

  • Chicago International Film Festival, USA 1993. - 'Golden Hugo Award'.
  • 38th Cork Film Festival, Ireland 1993. - 'Special Jury Commendation'.
  • Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain 1993. - 'Special Jury Prize'.
  • Festival du Cinema Intl. en Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Canada 1993.- 'Prix Anime'.
  • Cinanima International Animated Film Festival, Portugal 1993. - 'Grand Prize'.
  • 6th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France 1994. - 'Public Prize'.- 'Press Prize' and a special mention.
  • Tampere 24th International Short Film Festival, Finland - March 1994. - 'Grand Prix'.
  • PACT Indies Awards, London March 1994.
    - 'Radio Times Readers Poll' - Best Programme.
    - 'Best Music & Arts Programme'.
  • Zoom! The Intl. Children's Film festival. Toronto, Canada. March 1994. - 'The Nelvana Award' for Best Intl. Animation.
  • Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, USA. - March 1994. - 'Award for Best Short Animated Film.'
  • Stuttgart Film Festival - March 1994. -'Award for Funniest Film.' -'Audience Prize.'
  • The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. - April 1994. -'Award for Best Short Animated Film.'
  • Festival International du Court Metrage - Montreal, Canada - April 1994. -'Distinction for the Excellence of the Entire Work.'
  • Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany - May 1994. -'Audience Prize' for Best Film.
  • Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia - June 1994. - 'Grand Prix'.
  • Seattle International Film Festival, U.S.A. - June 1994. - 'Golden Space Needle Award for Best Short Film'
  • Vila do Conde, Portugal. - June 1994. - 'Public Prize'.
  • Sydney Film Festival, Australia - June 1994.
    - 'Audience Prize for Best Short Film'
    - 'Film Critic's Circle Prize for Best Short Film'.
  • Blackpool Film Festival, England - June 1994. - 'Golden Tower Award'.
  • International Short Film Festival, Vila do Conde, Portugal - July 1994. - 'Audience Prize'.
  • Hiroshima '94 The 5th Intl. Animation Festival in Japan - August 1994. - 'Best Film Category G'
  • Cairo International Film Festival For Children, Egypt - September 1994. - 'Golden Cairo for Cartoon Films'.
  • European Association of Animation Film, Brussels - September 1994. - 'Cartoon D'or'.
  • Mendrisio Cartoon '94, Mendrisio, Switzerland - November 1994. - 'First Prize'.
  • Odense Film Festival, Denmark - August 1995. - 'Jury prize'.
  • Krok Animation Festival, Ukraine - September 1995. - 'Special Jury Prize'
  • Atlantic Film Festival, Nova Scotia - December 1995. - 'Children's Choice Award for Best Production Under 60 Minutes'
  • VII Umbria Film Festival - December 1995. - "Opera Nuova Prize" Menzione Speciale cortometraggi

  A Close Shave

  • Intl. Council of N.A.T.A.S. - Awarded International Emmy for Popular Arts category, November 1996.
  • Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards - Best Sound and Best Production Design, November 1996.
  • British Animation Awards, London, England, Feb. 1996.
    - Best film over fifteen minutes.
    - Best Scenario.
    - Public Choice Award for Favourite Film.
    - Public Choice Award for Funniest Film.
  • San Francisco Intl. Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards, USA, February 1996. - Certificate of Merit.
  • Aspen Shortsfest, Aspen Co., USA, February 1996. - Animated Eye Award.
  • Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, March 1996. - Award for Best Short Animated Film 1995.
  • Portland Intl. Film Festival, Portland, Oregon, USA, February 1996.
  • Cairo Intl. Film Festival for Children, Cairo, Egypt, February 1996. - Bronze Cairo for Cartoon Films & The Children Jury's Prize.
  • Video Home Entertainment - The Awards of Excellence '95 - Top Programmes Animation .
  • Tampere Intl. Short Film Festival, Tampere, Finland, March 1996. - "Kiss" Statuette For Animation.

Documentation

Wallace, Gromit and Nick Park: Inside the Wrong Trousers (1993) UK (BBC-Television), time: 22'26 min

Collections

• The Wonderful Worlds of Aardman: A Retrospective (1978-1994)
  contains "A Grand Day Out", time: 104 min

• Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection (1994)
  contains "A Grand Day Out" and "The Wrong Trousers" (O.m.U.)
  + Adam (1992, 8 min), Rex the Raunt (2*2 min), Creature Comforts (1990, 5 min) and Sledgehammer (5 min)

• Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection Teil 2 (1996)
  contains "A Close Shave" (O.m.U.)
  + Wat's Pig (Peter Lord), Early Bird (Peter Lord & David Sproxton), Heat Electric! (Nick Park & Peter Lord), Not without my handbag (Boris Kossmehl), My baby just cares for me (Peter Lord), War Story (Peter Lord) and Pop (Sam Fell).

Promotion Campaigns

• BBC2's Christmas Promotion Campaign (1995)
  Wallace and Gromit were featured in BBC2's christmas promotion campaign. A number of very short animations were used. These included gromit baking mince pies, gromit firing a party 'banger', gromit skating and falling through the ice and wallace and gromit having christmas dinner! Each scene is just a few seconds long.
  [Information according to John, Wendy and Graham Thanks!]

Guest Appearances

• Tina Turner Video Clip (1996)
  According to Dale Murchie Wallace and Gromit appear in a Tina Turner video. It has to be "In your wildest dreams", the latest single release from her sametiteled album in the last quarter of 1996. It's a duet with Barry White. The video clip is the one where Tina is made of plasticine and Wallace is serving drinks behind the bar. The clip was used as a promo clip and not as the proper video (e.g. as you can see on MTV). The "official" one is a live shooting and very boring ;-)
  Sebastian Richter of www.tina-turner.com confirmed this (the Aardman video shooting, not my opinion that the "offical" clip of "Your wildest dreams" is very boring...). He also wrote me that the promo clip was showed on some concert of her german tour last year. It's not known, if this clip is available on tape somewhere. But the Aardman webpage got a picture of the platicine model of Tina Turner as you can see it on the right.
  The promo clip was one of three pieces of Aardman work that have been chosen for publication by the British Design and Art Direction . The animations was directed by Bill Mather, who received a silver pencil for his work.

• Reboot (1996)
  According to Dale Murchie the Pilfering Penguin Feather's McGraw also appears in the Canadian computer animation series 'Reboot' occasionally.