Wallace and Gromit win BAFTA
stop-motion movie wins yet another award
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit won the children's BAFTA for Best Feature Film. Movie already won another BAFTA and an Oscar for Best Animated Film.
(Source: www.telegraph.co.uk)
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit continued its winning ways, taking Best Feature Film at the children's British Academy Film and Television Awards.
The stop-motion movie, which took Aardman Animation 5 years to make, topped such high-powered competitors as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
This is the 3rd major award that Curse of the Were-Rabbit has received this year. It also took the adult BAFTA for Outstanding Film of the Year in February, and it won the 2005 Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film last March.
The latest in the award-winning Wallace and Gromit franchise, which pitted the cheese-obsessed inventor and his genius dog against a lycanthropic monster with a taste for overgrown vegetables, made $56 million in North America. Despite turning a profit (the film cost a mere $30 million to make), DreamWorks Animation (Wallace and Gromit's North American distributor) was disappointed with the movie's take. DreamWorks also clashed with Aardman over the movie, at one point demanding that Aardman replace long-time Wallace voice actor Peter Sallis with someone North American audiences would recognize.
The only fan-driven kids' BAFTA of the night went to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Almost 100,000 British children under the age of 16 pronounced J.K. Rowling's teenage wizard their favourite, beating out 10 other shortlisted competitors.
