A Year in Shorts Day 304: "A Matter of Loaf and Death"
The mid-2000s was a busy time for Wallace and Gromit. At the 78th Academy Awards, the duo managed to secure their first Oscar win outside the Best Animated Short category when The Curse of the Were-Rabbit became the first (and so far only) stop-motion AND British film to win Best Animated Short. 2007 saw the release of the critically acclaimed Shaun the Sheep spinoff series, which went on to inspire two Oscar-nominated films on its own. And in 2008, Wallace and Gromit would receive one final Oscar nod for their short A Matter of Loaf and Death. (via Wikipedia) In some ways, A Matter of Loaf and Death isn't very different from other Wallace and Gromit films. Aside from once again being directed by Nick Park, the film contains the usual staples we've come to expect from their films- Wallace and Gromit hard at work in a new job (in this case, baking), getting involved in some sort of strangely intense conspiracy, Wallace having an ill-fated romance and the task falling on Grom