The nominations for the 2025 Oscars have been announced, extending an incredible nomination streak for the animation company, Aardman Animations. Established in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Aardman Animations is a British animation company that specializes in creating movies and TV shows through clay animation and stop-motion. The company has created several successful animated movies across the years, including Shaun the Sheep, Flushed Away, and Chicken Run, which are among the highest-rated stop-motion movies ever made.

However, the studio’s most noteworthy claymation series is Wallace & Gromit. The franchise follows Wallace, an eccentric inventor with a strong love of cheese, and Gromit, his intelligent and loyal pet beagle and best friend. Since their debut in 1989, every Wallace & Gromit movie has been highly praised, and the characters have since been recognized as British cultural icons. Wallace and Gromit have since appeared in their second animated feature movie, which has allowed the franchise’s remarkable Oscar nomination streak, which has remained unbroken for 35 years, to continue.

Every Wallace & Gromit Movie & Short Has Been Oscar Nominated, Including Vengeance Most Fowl Now

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Is The Most Recent Oscar Nod For The Series

Premiering on Netflix in 2024, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl follows the duo on a new adventure as Wallace establishes a business selling his garden gnome invention. However, the invention’s success is thwarted by the comeback of Feathers McGraw, their penguin arch-enemy, and Wallace and Gromit must find a way to stop him. Reviews of Vengeance Most Fowl have described the movie as “a triumphant return” for the duo since their last appearance in 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death. Vengeance Most Fowl received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, setting a new record for the franchise.

Vengeance Most Fowl‘s nomination means that every Wallace & Gromit short and feature film has been Oscar-nominated for either Best Animated Short or Best Animated Feature. Receiving their first nomination in 1989 for their debut short, A Grand Day Out, the Wallace & Gromit franchise has since won two Best Animated Short Oscars and Best Animated Feature for their first feature movie, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Vengeance Most Fowl marks the franchise’s sixth consecutive Oscar nomination, which is a great achievement for Aardman Animations.

Aardman’s Oscar Success Goes Beyond Wallace & Gromit

Other Aardman Movies Have Been Recognized At The Oscars

Aardman Animations has achieved success with other animated franchises, aside from Wallace & Gromit. The company received its first Oscar in 1990 for the animated short, Creature Comforts, and received five further Best Animated Short nominations for their short films, Adam (1992), Wat’s Pig (1996), Humdrum (1999), and Robin Robin (2021). Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit spinoff series, Shaun the Sheep, has also proven successful and received two Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations for Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) and A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2021), respectively.

Although it didn’t receive any Oscar nominations, the critical and commercial success of Aardman’s 2000 movie, Chicken Run, is credited for contributing to the creation of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature (via Collider). The category was established in 2001 after years of campaigns and ultimately helped expand Wallace & Gromit‘s Oscar success, with its nominations in 2005 and 2025. It is yet to be determined whether Vengeance Most Fowl will be successful at winning Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, but its nomination is an incredible achievement for Aardman Animations’ three-decades-long streak.

Source: Collider