Wallace and Gromit fans angry over Oscar snub: “They were robbed”

3 March, 2025

Fans of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl are not happy that it was “robbed” at the Oscars on Sunday night.

The 97th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater, with Sean Baker’s sex worker-themed Anora being the biggest winner on the night, picking up five statuettes including Best Picture.

Among the other winners was Flow, a Latvian fantasy film about a group of animals trying to survive as the water level dramatically rises. It won the Best Animated Feature Film prize, beating Pixar’s Inside Out 2, The Wild Robot and Memoir Of A Snail, but it is Wallace and Gromit’s omission that has provoked a lot of people online to complain.

One X user commented: “How dare they not recognize art in the form of Wallace and Gromit for Best Animated Feature Film. Stop motion animation is talent. Change my mind.”

See some other reactions to the snub here:

Vengeance Most Fowl is the second Wallace and Gromit feature-length film and sixth overall from Aardman Animations and it premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day in the UK. It is streaming on Netflix now internationally. It may not have been successful at the Academy Awards, but it did pick up the Best Animated Feature at the BAFTAs, where it also won the inaugural Best Children’s & Family Film award.

Among other controversies to emerge from this year’s Oscars were fans of Chalamet reacting angrily to the star losing in the Best Actor race to The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody and David Lynch being seen as under-represented in the In Memoriam segment.

Speculation arose that Gal Gadot had refused to present the Best Documentary prize to the winner No Other Land, a film exploring the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta in Palestine, due to her outspoken support for Israel. It later emerged, however, that she was never scheduled to present that award.

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