Animated characters Wallace and Gromit stole the show on at the 2025 BAFTA Awards red carpet ahead of the ceremony where they’re nominated for several major awards
The BAFTA Awards are back for 2025, with endless glitz and glamour filling the red carpet on Sunday afternoon.
Host David Tennant was one of the first big names to grace the event as he joined red carpet host Clara Amfo . Looking as suave as ever in an embroidered suit, matching tie and carefully coiffed hair, he appeared to be delighted to join Clara, who looked effortlessly stunning in a sleeveless white gown.
However, it was a surprise appearance from Wallace and Gromit on the red carpet that got everyone talking. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which was a festive hit as it aired over Christmas, has been nominated for several major awards including Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards and in three categories at the BAFTA Film Awards for Animated Film, Children’s and Family Film and Outstanding British Film.
“Awwwwh Wallace and Gromit stealing the show on the red carpet at the BAFTA’s. My inner child is beaming,” one fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “How cute are Wallace and Gromit at the BAFTA’s. Love this so much,” another gushed.
“Never mind Ariana Grande or Timothee Chalamet, Wallace and Gromit are my Roman Empire. Best duo at the BAFTA Awards,” someone else added.
In Vengeance Most Fowl, our favourite cheese-loving inventor and his loyal dog find themselves dealing with a ‘smart gnome’ that starts to show signs of independent thought. Meanwhile, their old nemesis from The Wrong Trousers, Feathers McGraw, is plotting revenge and aims to thwart Wallace and Gromit’s plans as they launch a new business venture.
The film marked not only the first Wallace and Gromit feature in 16 years but is also the first without the original voice of Wallace, actor Peter Sallis. Ben Whitehead took over the role in the 2010s after Sallis’ declining health made acting increasingly difficult, and he has voiced Wallace in shorts, exhibitions and features since then. Actor Peter sadly died in 2017.
Sallis was a celebrated TV actor, best known for his role as Norman “Cleggy” Clegg in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine. He also had a successful stage career, sharing the stage with Judi Dench in Cabaret, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Orson Welles. In 1983, Nick Park approached him to voice a clay character named Wallace, a role which Peter accepted in exchange for a £50 donation to his favourite charity.
It took six years for the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out, to hit the screens. Creator Nick said: “He was my first and only choice for Wallace. His silliness started the moment he greeted you at the door and didn’t stop when the mic was switched off. He had naturally funny bones and was a great storyteller.”
The film received an Oscar nomination, and its sequels, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, went on to win Oscars in 1993 and 1995, respectively. Sallis continued to voice Wallace in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008), as well as in various smaller Wallace and Gromit projects.
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