--- name: "Will Becher" canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-becher" fi1m_id: "will-becher" imdb_id: "nm2192511" tmdb_id: 1453616 wikidata_id: "Q84253694" roles: ["Animation","Director"] born: "1 January 2000" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-03T00:45:25.977791+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." --- # Will Becher ## Identity Will Becher - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-becher - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** will-becher - **IMDb ID:** nm2192511 - **TMDB ID:** 1453616 - **Wikidata ID:** Q84253694 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Becher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84253694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2192511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1453616 Animation and director. Born 1 January 2000 in Brighton, England. ## Details - **Work:** Animation, Director - **Born:** 1 January 2000, Brighton, England - **Active:** 2012–2019 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Becher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84253694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2192511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1453616 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon*](https://film.one/film/a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Will Becher > Will Becher makes stop-motion characters funny through movement and timing. His feature debut with Richard Phelan is a gentle, carefully made family adventure, though its small jokes are more inventive than its science-fiction story. In *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019), the farmyard business is the strongest material, even with an alien adventure on offer. We laughed at the incidental jokes because the puppets get on with them without stopping to explain. Becher and co-director Richard Phelan trust movement and timing to carry the humour. It makes a good family evening, although the story offers little surprise. That attention to performance has a practical background. Becher was an animator on *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), then lead character animator on *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015). As animation director on Nick Park’s *Early Man* (2018), he was already overseeing how characters moved before sharing feature directing duties on *Farmageddon*. Phelan brought a story background to that partnership, Becher his experience on the animation floor. The film is best discussed as joint work; we cannot sensibly assign each successful joke to one of them. The scale of *Farmageddon* does give them room to try things. Its underground base and alien spaceship sets allow for detailed environments without losing the handmade look of Aardman’s stop-motion work. We like that willingness to build something bigger while keeping the puppets’ physical comedy central. The difficulty is that the science-fiction story is less inventive than the small jokes happening inside it. The songs sometimes intrude, too, when watching the characters is already quite enough. Becher later served as supervising animator and second unit director on *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), continuing to work directly with character performance. One shared feature gives us limited grounds for separating his taste from that of his collaborators. His command of wordless comedy is the clearer reason to follow his work. Start with *Farmageddon* when the evening calls for something funny and gentle, rather than something unfamiliar. ## Biography Will Becher is a British stop-motion animator and film director at Aardman Animations. He began his career with a summer work placement on *Chicken Run* in the late 1990s while studying animation in Edinburgh. On graduation he joined the animation team on *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), one of the studio’s youngest feature-film animators at the time. Becher has worked as a lead character animator on *The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists* (2012) and *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015), and as animation director on *Early Man* (2018). He co-directed *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019) with Richard Phelan; the film received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Animated Feature. In 2024 he was appointed Stop-Motion Lead at the Aardman Academy and has served as supervising animator on *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024). *Sources: aardman.com, en.wikipedia.org, animationmagazine.net.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) - *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon.md) ### Crew (1) — the average rests on these - *ParaNorman* (2012), Fi1m 76, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/paranorman.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), Second Unit Director - *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019), as Additional Voices (voice) · Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon.md) - *Early Man* (2018), Animation Director - *Wallace & Gromit x Visit England* (2015), Animation - *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015), Lead Animator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-movie.md) - *ParaNorman* (2012), Animation — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/paranorman.md) - *Shaun the Sheep: Shear Madness* (2012), Animation - *Shaun the Sheep: Party Animals* (2010), Animation - *A Matter of Loaf and Death* (2008), Animation - *Shaun the Sheep* (2007), series, Director - *Off Beat* (2006), Director, Writer, Animation - *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Animation — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md) - *Boxed In* (2002), Director - *Glowberry*, Producer - *MEAT*, Producer ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2021: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2015: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *Shaun the Sheep Movie* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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