Shaun The Sheep Movie nominated for Oscar
- The Shaun The Sheep Movie has been nominated in the Oscars
- It features in the shortlist for Best Animated Feature
The Shaun The Sheep Movie has been nominated for Best Animated Feature in the 2016 Academy Awards.
The only feature-length British comedy film to receive an Oscar nomination this year, the Aardman production is one of five movies in the category.
Also selected by the jury are Disney Pixar's Inside Out; Japanese anime film When Marnie Was There; adult stop-motion American film Anomalisa; and Brazilian feature Boy & The World.
Aardman has an impressive track record winning Oscars. The first Academy Award it picked up was Best Animated Short Film, for Creature Comforts in 1990, which saw creator Nick Park nominated against himself and the first Wallace & Gromit short, A Grand Day Out.
Park and Aardman won the award a further two times, for Wallace & Gromit's The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Other Aardman productions have picked up an additional four nominations between them in the Animated Short Film category.
Wallace & Gromit's feature length outing, The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, won Best Animated Feature in 2005, and Aardman was again nominated in the category in 2012, for The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, but lost out to Disney Pixar's Brave.
The 88th Academy Awards will be announced on 28th February 2016. For a full list of nominations see the Oscars website
Aardman and Nick Park are now working on Early Man, a new film scheduled for release in 2017. Set in the stone age, it tells the story of the how the world's first football match happened.
The Farmer's Llamas, the latest Shaun The Sheep special, which was broadcast on BBC One over Christmas, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer until the 2nd of February.
Below is a video going behind the scenes to show how the movie was made.