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Directed by | Nick Park |
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Cinematography | Dave Alex Riddett |
Edited by | Helen Garrard |
Music by | Julian Nott |
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Distributed by | BBC Worldwide |
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Running time | 30 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Budget | £1.3 million[2] |
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 & Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace & Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). In the film, Wallace and Gromit foil a sheep rustling operation operated by a sinister dog, Preston.
A Close Shave was acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards.[3] A spin-off television series based on the Shaun character, Shaun the Sheep, premiered in 2007.