A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the latest movie from Aardman Studios in England, Shaun the Sheep: the Movie. I noted what a big fan I was of Aardman, which has won at least three Oscars (oddly, it's a bit difficult to track down exactly, and the number of nominations even more so), beginning with the wonderful Creature Comforts. Aardman makes stop-motion animation, a painstaking process, where models are built for everything and moved one frame at a time. Among their work, they also did Chicken Run and Wallace & Grommit (and the many Wallace & Grommit shorts). But so much more, almost all a hoot. Not to mention clever, inventive and smart. And I realized I should post here the short which got them their first Oscar in 1990, for Best Animated Short, the delightfully offbeat and unique, Creature Comforts, directed by one of Aardman's co-founders and guiding lights, Nick Park. How good is Aardman? The same year it won for Creature Comforts, the company also had a second nomination in the same category, for A Grand Day Out. I believe that the success and whimsy of Creature Comforts spun it off into a TV series in England, or at least a series of animated shorts done in the same style. I shall say no more. You'll see --
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