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",
Nick Park United Kingdom's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4. Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television in 2003. His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, "", was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations'