The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Nick Park and Steve Box's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the first feature-length outing for Aardman Animations' Wallace & Gromit, after three short films: A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995). Park directed all three himself, and the last two won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

The feature won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 78th Academy Awards in March 2006, along with the BAFTA for Best British Film and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. It came out of Aardman's production deal with DreamWorks (which followed Chicken Run in 2000), an arrangement that paired Aardman's stop-motion technique with DreamWorks' international distribution muscle. The deal ended after the 2006 release, and later Aardman features were made with other international partners.

Peter Sallis voices Wallace, as he had since the original A Grand Day Out sixteen years earlier, alongside Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Peter Kay. Approximately three hundred animators worked on it at Aardman's Bristol studios, and the plasticine stop-motion took close to four years from first development. In October 2005 a fire at Aardman's Bristol warehouse destroyed original models and historical Wallace & Gromit material; the company has said that all surviving sets and puppets are now kept at separate locations precisely because of it.