The Wrong Trousers

1993 stop motion animated short film directed by Nick Park
Movie animated_short_film Q1969617
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Summary

The Wrong Trousers is an animated short film[1]. It ranks in the top 0.41% of animated short film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,358 views/month, #6 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3], BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation[4]
  • Director: Nick Park[5]
  • Screenwriter: Nick Park[6], Bob Baker[7]
  • Composer: Julian Nott[8]
  • Genre: heist film[9], comedy film[10]
  • Follows: A Grand Day Out[11]
  • Followed by: A Close Shave[12]
  • Producer: Peter Lord[13], David Sproxton[14]
  • Production company: Aardman Animations[15]
  • Director of photography: Tristan Oliver[16]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[17], Spanish[18]
  • Commons category: The Wrong Trousers[19]
  • Review score: 9.2/10[20], 100%[21]
  • Color: color[22]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[23]
  • Publication date: December 26, 1993[24], December 17, 1993[25], June 23, 1996[26]
  • Voice actor: Peter Sallis[27]
  • Distributed by: British Broadcasting Corporation[28]
  • Main subject: penguin[29]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[30]
  • Title: Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers[31]
  • FSK film rating: FSK 6[32]
  • Duration: 30 minutes[33]
  • Fabrication method: clay animation[34]
  • Capital cost: 650,000 pounds sterling[35]

Why It Matters

The Wrong Trousers has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did The Wrong Trousers receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3] and BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation[4].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ary', 'ca', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', '
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    Review score → 9.2/10, 100%
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  6. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +1993-12-26T00:00:00Z, +1993-12-17T00:00:00Z, +1996-06-23T00:00:00Z
    Screenwriter → Nick Park, Bob Baker
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