This year’s Animation Magazine Online Oscar Poll, held just prior to the Oscar event, saw Aardman Animations’ and DreamWorks Animation’s Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit win with 47% of the vote.
The claymation comedy from directors Nick Park and Steve Box, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, easily beat fellow leading vote getters Warner Bros.’ Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (33%) and Disney’s presentation of Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle (20%).
Though it did lukewarm theatrical and home video business in the US, the first-ever Wallace & Gromit feature was a huge hit outside the US. Prior to winning the Oscar, the film picked up a bevy of kudos this season, including the BAFTA for Best British Film. (Source – Animation Magazine Online)
Pixar Animation Studio has released its fourth-quarter financial results, declaring 2005 its most profitable year ever.
