Nick Park | |
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![]() Park at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007 | |
Born | Nicholas Wulstan Park 6 December 1958 Preston, Lancashire, England |
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Years active | 1985–present |
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Spouse |
Mags Connolly (m. 2016) |
Awards | Four Academy Awards (1989, 1993, 1995, 2005) |
Nicholas Wulstan Park CBE RDI[2][3] (born 6 December 1958)[4] is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man.[5] Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).[6]
He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008.[7][8] His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.[9]
In 1985, Park joined Aardman Animations based in Bristol, and for his work in animation he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Peter Blake to appear in a 2012 version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.[10][11]
Park was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1997 Birthday Honours for "services to the animated film industry".[12]
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