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Steve Box is a British stop-motion animator and director whose career is closely tied to the Aardman Animations studio. He contributed as a key animator to the studio's early success with films like "Chicken Run" (2000) and Wallace & Gromit short films. Box notably co-directed "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (2005) alongside Nick Park, a feature that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. His work focuses on physical comedy, plasticine character animation, and British humor.

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What did Steve Box do on Chicken Run?

Steve Box was a key animator on Aardman's Chicken Run, released in 2000. The film was Aardman's first feature and was produced in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.

Did Steve Box direct a Wallace and Gromit feature?

Yes. Box co-directed Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Nick Park. Released in 2005, it was Aardman's second feature after Chicken Run and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. [Aardman film information](https://www.aardman.com/film-tv/wallace-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit/)

Which Wallace and Gromit shorts did Steve Box animate?

Box worked as an animator on The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, two important Wallace and Gromit shorts from the 1990s. He later moved from animation into feature directing at Aardman.

What makes Steve Box's work distinct within Aardman?

His career connects hands-on plasticine character animation with large-scale stop-motion directing. The transition can be seen from Chicken Run's prison-break story to the monster-movie parody and vegetable competition in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.