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Nick Park
CBE RDI
Park at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007
Born
Nicholas Wulstan Park
(1958-12-06) 6 December 1958 (age 65)
Preston, Lancashire, England
Occupations
Filmmaker
animator
voice actor
Years active
1985–present
Works
Wallace and Gromit
Creature Comforts
Chicken Run
Shaun the Sheep
Early Man
Spouse
Mags Connolly
(m. 2016)
Awards
Four Academy Awards (1989, 1993, 1995, 2005)
Nick Park's voice
from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 19 December 2010.[1]
Nicholas Wulstan ParkCBE 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to the animated film industry.[12]
^"Nick Park". Desert Island Discs. 19 December 2010. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^"BBC Politics 1997: Courage rewarded in honours list". BBC Television News. 1997. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
^"PARK, Nicholas Wulstan". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Nick Park at IMDb
^"About Aardman". Retrieved 22 October 2022.
^Robinson, James (26 December 2008). "Wallace and Gromit lead BBC to Christmas ratings victory". Guardian.co.uk. London. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
^"Film Winners in 2009". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
^"The Longer View: British animation". BBC. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
^"Close-up: Sir Peter Blake's new Sgt Pepper collage". BBC News. BBC. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^"New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday". The Guardian. 5 October 2016.
^United Kingdom list: "No. 54794". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1997. p. 9.
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