A Grand Day Out

A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit. It was directed, animated and co-written by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.

A Grand Day Out
North American VHS cover
Directed byNick Park
Written byNick Park
Steve Rushton
Produced byRob Copeland
StarringPeter Sallis
CinematographyNick Park
Edited byRob Copeland
Music byJulian Nott
Production
companies
National Film and Television School
Aardman Animations
Distributed byNational Film and Television School
Release date
  • 4 November 1989 (1989-11-04)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£11,000

A Grand Day Out debuted on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1990 on Channel 4. It was followed by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death. A Grand Day Out was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1991.

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