The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Nick Park and Steve Box's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the first feature-length entry in the Aardman Animations Wallace & Gromit series, after the three earlier short films — A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) — all of which Park had directed himself, with the latter two winning Academy Awards in the Animated Short Film category.

The feature won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 78th Academy Awards in March 2006, the BAFTA for Best British Film, and the Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature. It was made through Aardman's then-running production deal with DreamWorks (which followed Chicken Run in 2000) and the financing structure paired Aardman's stop-motion technique with DreamWorks' international distribution muscle. The deal ended after the 2006 release; subsequent Aardman features were produced under different international partnerships.

The voice cast pairs Peter Sallis as Wallace — Sallis had voiced the role since the original A Grand Day Out sixteen years earlier — with Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Peter Kay. The film was produced at Aardman's Bristol studios using a crew of approximately three hundred animators, with the stop-motion plasticine work taking close to four years total from initial development. The famous fire at Aardman's Bristol warehouse in October 2005 destroyed the original models and historical Wallace & Gromit material — the company has stated that all surviving sets and puppets are now backed up at separate locations specifically because of that incident.