Rose began his career running the cinemas at the
Bristol's
Watershed Media Centre and
Arnolfini Gallery in the 1980s. He worked with
Channel Four Television and later joined
Aardman Animations in 1994 as Head of Development. Rose headed the feature film division of
Aardman Animations and was executive producer for animated films such as
Chicken Run and the
Oscar and
BAFTA-winning
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Rose also produced the 1995 Oscar-winning
Wallace & Gromit film,
A Close Shave, directed by
Nick Park. In 2003 Rose, alongside producer Martin Pope, co-founded
Magic Light Pictures, a London-based independent film production company which produced animated films including
The Gruffalo and
The Snail and the Whale, which was nominated for 4
Oscars and won 4
BAFTAs. == Filmography ==