Nick Park

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Steve Box, Nick Park

• 2006 BAFTA-Children winner
• 2006 Oscar-Animation winner
• 2006 Hugo-Video nominee
• 2006 Saturn-Animated nominee
• Score: 32.56

A decade after their last hilarious short, the Oscar-winning A Close Shave, Claymation wonders Wallace and Gromit return for a full-length adventure. Daffy scientist Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his heroic dog Gromit are doing well with their business, Anti-Pesto, a varmint-hunting outfit designed to keep their English town safe from rabbits chomping on prized vegetables. Wallace meets Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), who appreciates Wallace’s humane way of dealing with rabbits (courtesy of the Bun-Vac 6000), and sets up a rivalry with the…

Chicken Run

Peter Lord, Nick Park

• 2001 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
• 2001 Hugo-Video nominee
• 2001 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
• 2000 BAFTA-Children nominee
• Score: 24.51

There were a lot of disappointments in the 2000 summer movie season, but Chicken Run wasn’t one of them. Made by Aardman Animations, which produced the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit shorts, this is a dazzling stop-motion animation film that is both deftly funny and surprisingly touching. The concept is simple: The Great Escape—with chickens. But directors Peter Lord and Nick Park take it much further than that (and remember: there’s a whole generation out there that has no idea who Steve McQueen is). Julia Sawalha voices Ginger, a plucky English…