A Close Shave

This article is about the animated film. For the band, see Close Shave. For the saying, see close call.

Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave
Original USA VHS artwork cover
Directed byNick Park
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDave Alex Riddett
Edited byHelen Garrard
Music byJulian Nott
Production
companies
Distributed byBBC Worldwide
Release date
  • 24 December 1995 (1995-12-24)
Running time
30 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Budget£1.3 million[2]

Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace and Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). A Close Shave won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[3] A Close Shave saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the main character of the Shaun the Sheep spin-off series.

  1. ^ "A Close Shave". BBFC.
  2. ^ "Production History – A Close Shave". Telepathy. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  3. ^ "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 25 March 1996. Retrieved 24 September 2012.