A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. It was the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008. The fourth Wallace and Gromit short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, was Park's first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal. Park said later that DreamWorks executives wanted to Americanise the very British Wallace and Gromit after test screenings, which would have tarnished some of the duo's nostalgic charm. In January 2007, a five-film deal with DreamWorks and Aardman fell through after only three films, due to creative differences, as well as the box office failure of Flushed Away. The latter three each earned Academy Awards. The full-length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in 2005. The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave followed.
The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1991, but lost to Creature Comforts, another animated creation of Nick Park. The Wallace and Gromit characters spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities: Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports children's hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, the charity for Bristol Children's Hospital in Bristol, England. The franchise has received numerous accolades, including five British Academy Film Awards, three Academy Awards and a Peabody Award. A fourth short film, A Matter of Loaf and Death, was released in 2008. The feature film is the second-highest-grossing stop-motion animated film, only outgrossed by Chicken Run (2000), another creation of Park's. Their films have received critical acclaim, with the first three of the short films, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) all being extremely well received the feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) has also received similar acclaim. Wallace is fond of Wensleydale cheese (from Wensleydale, North Yorkshire). Wallace's accent comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire. Although not overtly set in any particular town, Park has hinted that it was inspired by 1950s Wigan in Northern England. Icons has said they have done "more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors". BBC News called them "some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK". īecause of their widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international cultural icons of both modern British culture and British people in general. Gromit is largely silent and no dialogue, communicating through facial expressions and body language. Wallace was voiced by actors Peter Sallis until 2010, before his death in 2018, and Ben Whitehead. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and made public in 1989.
#BEST ANIMATED WALLPAPERS SERIES#
The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his silent yet loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle.
#BEST ANIMATED WALLPAPERS TV#
The series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. Wallace & Gromit is a British stop-motion comedy franchise created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.
0 kommentar(er)
