---
name: "Merlin Crossingham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/merlin-crossingham"
fi1m_id: "merlin-crossingham"
imdb_id: "nm1271549"
tmdb_id: 1444273
wikidata_id: "Q132035423"
roles: ["Second unit director","Director"]
born: "24 July 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:46:46.164178+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Merlin Crossingham

## Identity

Merlin Crossingham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/merlin-crossingham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** merlin-crossingham
- **IMDb ID:** nm1271549
- **TMDB ID:** 1444273
- **Wikidata ID:** Q132035423
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132035423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1271549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1444273

Second unit director and director. Born 24 July 1965 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Second unit director, Director
- **Born:** 24 July 1965, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 87 (1), 2020s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132035423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1271549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1444273

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Merlin Crossingham is a British stop-motion animator and director. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he joined Aardman Animations in 1996 after completing a degree in Film and Photography at Newport Film School. He began working on Aardman commercials before serving as key animator on the feature film *Chicken Run* (2000) and second unit director on *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005).

Crossingham has specialised in Wallace & Gromit projects. He directed the *Creature Comforts USA* series, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination, and won a BAFTA New Media award in 2011 for *Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention*. In 2009 he became Creative Director for the Wallace & Gromit brand. He was animation director on *Early Man* (2018) and co-directed *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024) with Nick Park.

*Sources: aardman.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), Fi1m 81, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Fi1m 87, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), as Additional Voices (voice) · Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)
- *The Epic Adventures of Morph* (2020), series, Creator
- *Early Man* (2018), Animation Director
- *A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman* (2015), Animation Director
- *Wallace & Gromit x Visit England* (2015), Creative Director
- *Wallace & Gromit x Google Hangout | A Video Call with Aardman Friends!* (2012), Director
- *Gulp* (2011), Animation
- *Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention* (2010), series, Director
- *Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention* (2010), Director
- *A Matter of Loaf and Death* (2008), Supervising Animator
- *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Animation, Key Animation, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions* (2002), Animation Director, Writer
- *Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions* (2002), series, Animation Director, Creative Director, Story Developer
- *Chicken Run* (2000), Animation — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run.md)
- *Bimbo's Books*, series, Animation

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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