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Aardman Animations
Aardman was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to produce an animated motion picture.
From its beginnings this partnership produced a series of short animation ranging from a BBC series for deaf children to short segment pieces that were to inspire Morph. In 1989 Nick Park an animator for Aardman was to create the first production to win an Oscar: Creature Comforts. Park also developed the famous Wallace and Gromit; Wallace an excentric English inventor with a love of Wensleydale and his best friend, Gromit the dog. The Wallace and Gromit shorts include A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), the latter two winning Academy Awards, and later Wallace and Gromit, A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008).
Aardman have also produced a number of feature films such as Chicken Run (1997), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Flushed Away (2006), Arthur Christmas (2011), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012), and Early Man (2018).
From its beginnings this partnership produced a series of short animation ranging from a BBC series for deaf children to short segment pieces that were to inspire Morph. In 1989 Nick Park an animator for Aardman was to create the first production to win an Oscar: Creature Comforts. Park also developed the famous Wallace and Gromit; Wallace an excentric English inventor with a love of Wensleydale and his best friend, Gromit the dog. The Wallace and Gromit shorts include A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), the latter two winning Academy Awards, and later Wallace and Gromit, A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008).
Aardman have also produced a number of feature films such as Chicken Run (1997), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Flushed Away (2006), Arthur Christmas (2011), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012), and Early Man (2018).