A Close Shave A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following "A Grand Day Out" (1989) and "The Wrong Trousers" (1993). In "A Close Shave," Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like "The Wrong Trousers", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business. As they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace falls for shopkeeper
Oscar the Grouch mob until the program's cancellation, but didn't win much money. Oscar has made appearances on Canadian public broadcasting advertising "childhood diabetes awareness days" at the Montreal Canadiens hockey games. The fumetti comic "Twisted Toyfare Theater" once featured Oscar in an issue in which he sings a variation of his "I Love Trash" song about Wesley Snipes' movies. In the end, Wesley Snipes (as Blade) decapitates him. Beginning in 2008, Oscar became the mascot for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, an environmental campaign. In an episode of "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", an Oscar-like character emerges from a dustbin