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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion animated short film produced by Aardman Animations and created by Nick Park. It is the fifth Wallace & Gromit film, and the first short since A Close Shave (1995). [2] It was the last Wallace & Gromit film before the retirement of Wallace's voice actor, Peter Sallis, in ...
The fourth Wallace & Gromit short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, was Park's first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal. It was the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008. [6] A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. [7]
The next year, Aardman released a new Wallace and Gromit short film called A Matter of Loaf and Death. The first film made in partnership with Sony was the computer-animated Arthur Christmas (2011), Aardman's first 3D feature film. 2012 saw the release of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (known internationally in America as The ...
Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. [2] [3] He was the original voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a British series of ten Wallace & Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. [1] Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's skeptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations.
In October 2007, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned another Wallace and Gromit short film to be entitled Trouble at Mill [20] (retitled later to A Matter of Loaf and Death). Park studied at Preston College, [21] which has since named its library for the art and design department after him: the Nick Park Library Learning Centre.
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers: Nick Park Won 1995: Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave: Nick Park Won 1996: Wat's Pig: Peter Lord Nominated 1999: Humdrum: Peter Peake Nominated 2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Best Animated Feature: Nick Park and Steve Box: Won 2009: Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death: Best ...
In A Matter of Loaf and Death, when Wallace is talking to Gromit, a picture is seen behind Gromit of Wallace with a brown beard and brown hair. Wallace has had three love interests. The first was Wendolene Ramsbottom in A Close Shave, [4] which ended quickly when Wendolene told Wallace that she had a calcium allergy.