A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit. It was directed and animated by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.
The short premiered on November 4, 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on December 24, 1990 (Christmas Eve) on Channel 4. A Grand Day Out is followed by The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and A Matter of Loaf and Death.
The short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990, but it lost to Creature Comforts, another stop motion animated short film made by Nick Park and Aardman Animations, also released in 1989.
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