A Matter of Loaf and Death, the lastest Wallace and Gromit movie, due out on the BBC over Christmas has missed out on the Oscars.
The short film will however be eligible for an Oscar Nomination in 2010.
Previous Wallace and Gromit shorts The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave took home the Oscar for best animated short. Animator, Nic Park won, too, for his 2005 Wallace and Gromit feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The wacky inventor and his long-suffering dog also landed an Oscar nomination for their first film together, A Grand Day Out.
The new film would have had to have been submitted to the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by 1 October 2008 in order to be
eligible for next year's Oscars.
A Matter of Loaf and Death sees Wallace - voiced as ever by veteran
Last of the Summer Wine actor Peter Sallis - and his dog Gromit at the
helm of an automated bakery, named Top Bun.
Their business is disrupted when Wallace falls in love with
Piella Bakewell, the former star of a series of iconic bread
commercials.
Meanwhile a mysterious "cereal killer" is targeting
other bakers in the area, leading Gromit to fear his master's life may
be in danger.
Romance beckons for the plucky canine as well when he meets Fluffles, Piella's pretty pet poodle
Link to Wallace and Gromit news article on BBC news website