Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham's Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards in March 2025 and for Best Animated Film at the 78th BAFTAs the same year, losing to Flow at both ceremonies. It did win the Cristal Award for Best Feature at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2025.

It is the first Wallace & Gromit feature in nineteen years (since The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005) and the first new Wallace & Gromit material in any format since the BBC One short A Matter of Loaf and Death in 2008. Aardman developed it at its Bristol studios over roughly five years from green light to completion, and the stop-motion plasticine work ran to the equivalent of 220,000 individual frames of model manipulation, handled by an animation team of about fifty.

The film brings back the silent penguin Feathers McGraw, the villain of The Wrong Trousers in 1993, after thirty-one years, and putting the series' most distinctive character back at the centre was plainly the production's main bet on its audience. Peter Sallis, who had voiced Wallace across the whole run from 1989 to 2010, died in 2017; Ben Whitehead, who had been Sallis's voice double on later short pieces, takes over the role here. Netflix distributed the film worldwide except in the UK, where the BBC kept the streaming rights and broadcast it on Christmas Day 2024.