THE 'WALLACE & GROMIT' WAY TO MAKE OSCAR OUT OF CLAY.Byline: Rob Lowman Entertainment Editor For Nick Park, creator of the ``Wallace & Gromit'' franchise, picking up an Oscar is Oscar I, 1799–1859, king of Sweden and Norway (1844–59), son and successor of Charles XIV. His reign was one of social and economic advance. His book on the reform of criminal law and prisons had wide influence. Oscar was succeeded by his elder son, Charles XV. getting to be old hat. Park, who won the animated feature trophy Sunday, has made three shorts featuring the claymation odd couple - ``A Grand Day Out,'' ``The Wrong Trousers'' and ``A Close Shave'' - and all three were nominated for Oscars. Two of them won, and ``A Grand Day Out'' lost to another Park claymation short, ``Creature Comforts.'' ``Somebody once said if you make a bad film, you make it alone,'' Park said Sunday about grabbing the best animation feature prize for ``Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were- Rabbit,'' beating out ``Tim Burton's Corpse Bride'' and ``Howl's Moving Castle'' by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. ``If you make a good film, you make it with everybody.'' Park and co-director Steve Box Steve Box (born South Shields Tyne and Wear UK 9 February 1956) is an Oscar-winning animator and director who works for Aardman Animations. His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door , both wearing huge, goofy Goofy bumbling, awkward dog; originally named Dippy Dawg. [Comics: “Mickey Mouse” in Horn, 492] See : Awkwardness bow ties, placed small ties on their trophies. ``We just happened to bring them along just in case,'' Park said. A couple of days after hearing that ``Were-Rabbit'' - the first feature-length film about Wallace and Gromit - was an Oscar nominee for best animated feature, Park and Box were still in a silly mood. ``Claymation is the future,'' Park said. ``These computers will never last long. It's the age of clay.'' The remark is typical of the droll humor Droll humor is an often dry, witty form of humor that elicits laughs through amusingly odd, sometimes zany behavior or speech. Due to its more subtle nature, this type of humor is not commonly used by comedians; Steven Wright is an example of one who does use it in combination with you find in ``Wallace & Gromit'' but is also a reference to the fact that none of this year's nominees were computer-generated. CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. features have dominated the award - which began in 2001 - with wins for ``Shrek'' (2001), ``Finding Nemo'' (2003) and ``The Incredibles'' (2004). Only Miyazaki's ``Spirited Away'' (2002), which was hand-drawn animation, broke the chain. But, for 2005, Oscar voters preferred Miyazaki's traditionally drawn ``Howl's'' and the stop-motion procedures of ``Corpse Bride'' and ``Were-Rabbit.'' No one would have predicted that Park and his creations would reach such dizzying heights when he was a student at Britain's National Film and Television School a couple of decades ago. It was there that he paired a smart, silent dog, Gromit, with a childlike child·like adj. Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor. childlike Adjective like a child, for example in being innocent or trustful Adj. 1. , cheese-loving inventor of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions, Wallace, who is voiced by Peter Sallis Peter Sallis, OBE (b. February 1, 1921, Twickenham, Middlesex, England), is a British actor. He is best known for his role of the level-headed widower Norman Clegg (Cleggy) in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, which he has played since 1973. . The 85-year-old actor was at the Oscars, his first trip, and Park acknowledged him from the stage. Somehow, though, despite being done with lumps of modeling clay and relying on dry British humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , ``Wallace & Gromit'' has become a small empire, even as the age of high-tech computer animation grew. ``Were-Rabbit'' isn't Park's first claymation feature, though. He had a hit in 2000 with ``Chicken Run,'' featuring the voice of Mel Gibson Noun 1. Mel Gibson - Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956) Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Gibson U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. . But that was before they were giving out such awards. Rob Lowman, (818) 713-3687 robert.lowman(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) In bow ties, Nick Park and Steve Box accept their Oscars - festooned in matching miniature neck wear - for ``Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit,'' which won for best animated feature film. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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