Synopsis

A Grand Day Out was the first film in the famous stop-motion series, Wallace and Gromit by four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park and it didn’t win an Oscar solely because, that year, Park was defeated by none other than himself. The story follows the title characters who design a home-made rocket so they could throw a picnic on the Moon, because Wallace, like any true Englishman, is simply obsessed with crackers and cheese. Besides the funny premise, A Grand Day Out features a robot – a frequent SF motif, and dynamic scenes that have come to epitomise this claymation classic. (Silvestar Mileta)

Nick Park

Nick Park is a fourtime Academy Award winner, three in the category of Best Animated Short Film - Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and more recently in the category for Best Animated Feature Film for The Curse of The WereRabbit. All four films were created and produced at Aardman, where Park is a co-director with founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Over the years with Aardman, Park has also served as a director and animator on numerous projects including pop promos, title sequences and inserts for children’s television.