A Close Shave
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| Directed by | Nick Park |
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| Cinematography | Dave Alex Riddett |
| Edited by | Helen Garrard |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
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| Distributed by | BBC Worldwide |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Budget | £1.3 million |
| Box office | $20,909 |
A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park, written by Park and Bob Baker, and produced by Aardman Animations. It is the third instalment in the Wallace & Gromit series, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). In the film, Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit are operating a window cleaning service, when Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, Wendolene Ramsbottom (Anne Reid).
The duo find that Wendolene is an unwitting accomplice in a sheep rustling operation run by her malevolent dog, Preston. A Close Shave was acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards. A spin-off television series based on a character introduced in the film, Shaun the Sheep, premiered in 2007.