Arthur Christmas is a 2011 3D computer-animated fantasy film and was the first Sony Pictures Animation film co-produced with Aardman Animations. Directed by Sarah Smith and co-directed by Barry Cook, the film stars the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen. It is also the second entirely-computer animated Aardman feature film after 2006’s Flushed Away.
