Steve Box animator for Aardman's film "Chicken Run" and was an animator for the Wallace and Gromit films "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave", before co-writing and co-directing the feature film "" with Nick Park. The film scooped his second BAFTA and his first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film has also collected another 22 international awards and 12 other nominations for other awards. The film was a massive success at the Annie Awards where it won 10 Annie awards out of its 16 nominations. Box was most recently announced as the director behind the upcoming TV series, "Moominvalley",
The Wrong Trousers Animated Short Film. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Day", one of several events. A sequel, "A Close Shave", was released in 1995. Wallace gives Gromit a pair of futuristic ‘techno trousers’. Wallace decides to advertise the spare bedroom to let. The room is taken by a penguin, who befriends Wallace and isolates Gromit. The penguin takes an interest in the techno trousers after seeing Gromit use their suction feet to walk on the ceiling while decorating. After Gromit is driven from the house, the penguin secretly rewires the techno trousers for radio control. While