Aardman Animations

British animation studio and production company

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2025 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl received multiple award nominations, including Best Animated Feature, Animated Effects, Character Animation, Directing, Editorial, Music, and Production Design categories
2025 Upcoming Wallace & Gromit film 'Vengeance Most Fowl' set to be directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, nominated for Best Animated Feature Film
2024 Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget received nominations for Best Animated Effects and Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding
2024 Aardman planned BBC One Christmas idents, indicating their continued involvement in seasonal television branding.
2024 Aardman Animations is producing 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' in collaboration with BBC and Netflix, which has received a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
March 8 2024 Set to launch 'Things We Love' on BBC One
2023 Created a commercial for Thatchers Cider
2023 Created the music video for "Love Can Heal".
2023 Created 'Star Wars: Visions: I Am Your Mother', expanding their animation work into the Star Wars franchise
2023 Aardman Animations released 'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' in partnership with Netflix, receiving an 81% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
October 6 2023 Premiered 'Adventures of ArachnoFly' on YouTube
June 2022 The project 'The Cat Burglars' was revived as a Netflix CGI original animated film.
March 4 2022 Debuted 'The Very Small Creatures' on Sky Kids
2021 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon was nominated for Best Animated Feature - Independent, with nominations for Writing and Editorial categories
2021 Robin Robin was nominated for Best Animated Short, with Dan Ojari and Mikey Please as the credited filmmakers
2021 Aardman released Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up for iOS and Android in collaboration with Tiny Rebel Games, Potato, and Sugar Creative
2021 Aardman created BBC One Christmas idents and Nickelodeon idents, showcasing their ongoing work in multiple television channel brands.
2021 Produced two significant short films: 'Robin Robin' and 'Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas'
2020 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon was nominated for Best Animated Feature, with Will Becher, Richard Phelan and Paul Kewley as the credited filmmakers
2020 Produced DFS Christmas commercials featuring Wallace & Gromit and the Greenpeace 'Turtle Journey' environmental campaign
2019 Early Man received multiple award nominations, with Nick Park nominated for Directing and Eddie Redmayne for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2019 Aardman released Shaun the Sheep: Home Sheep Home - Farmageddon Party Edition for Windows and Nintendo Switch
2019 Created multiple commercials including Meerkat Movies, Woolmark Company, Joules, and DFS Furniture advertisements featuring Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit
2019 Produced the music video for "Daddy".
2019 Aardman Animations released 'A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon' with StudioCanal and Netflix, earning $47.8 million and receiving a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.
2018 Aardman collaborated with DigixArt to develop 11-11: Memories Retold for Windows, PS4, and Xbox One
2018 Aardman produced BBC Two 'Curve' idents, demonstrating their continued innovation in television branding.
2018 Aardman Animations released 'Early Man', grossing $54.6 million and receiving an 80% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
2017 Continued their music video work with the "Daddy" music video project.
2016 Shaun the Sheep Movie won the Special Achievement Award at the Critics' Choice Award
2016 Aardman's 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
2016 Aardman created the main titles animation for OFFF Barcelona 2016 design conference.
May 12 2016 Launched 'Counterfeit Cat' television series across multiple international networks
May 6 2016 Premiered 'Meet David Attenborough' mini-series on BBC One
2015 Shaun the Sheep Movie was nominated for Best Animated Feature, with Mark Burton and Richard Starzak as the credited filmmakers
2015 Aardman released two mobile games: Shaun the Sheep: Llama League and Shaun the Sheep: Shear Speed for iOS and Android
2015 Aardman released the app 'Escargot Escape Artistes', further exploring digital entertainment platforms.
2015 Significant year with multiple projects including Shaun the Sheep Movie, commercials for McDonald's, FindAnyFilm, Google+, Intellectual Property Office, Bristol Ageing Better, and a United Nations campaign
2015 Aardman Animations released 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' with StudioCanal, earning $106.2 million on a $25 million budget and achieving a 99% Rotten Tomatoes score.
August 7 2015 Started 'Golden Morph' series on YouTube
2013 Imelda Staunton was nominated for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production as Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2013 Aardman created the app 'Wizards vs Aliens: The Eye of Bashtarr', expanding into mobile application development.
2013 Produced multiple commercials including Shaun the Sheep for McDonald's Happy Meal, and advertisements for VisitEngland, Zantac, and Geico
2012 Bill Nighy won Voice Acting in a Feature Production for Arthur Christmas
2012 Aardman's film 'Arthur Christmas' was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film by Sarah Smith
2012 Created McDonald's Happy Meal promotion for 'The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists'
2012 Created multiple short films including 'Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon' and 'The Pirates! So You Want to Be a Pirate!'
2012 Aardman Animations released 'The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!', grossing $123 million and receiving an 86% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
June 2012 A story for the Pirates! sequel was prepared, awaiting Sony's support, which was ultimately not received due to insufficient international earnings.
2011 Aardman released Home Sheep Home and Home Sheep Home 2 for iOS and Flash platforms

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