Making movies is a risky business. Movies which cost less than $40 million to make, are fully funded up-front, get global exposure and win Oscars sound like the stuff of fantasy.

Nick Park poses on a bench with his animated duo ... Mr Park, who won his first Academy Award for Creature Comforts, said "it's hard to pin down" the pair's enduring popularity.

Wallace & Gromit, originally created by animator/director Nick Park ... only to lose to ‘Creature Comforts,’ also from Aardman and created by Park. The pair are coming back for ‘Wallace ...