Nick Park

Also known as Nicholas Wulstan Park, Nicholas Park

British animator and filmmaker (born 1958)

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Works: 42

Top works

Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out
The Gospel & Human Rights
Faith - The Real Thing
Wallace and Gromit

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Directing · Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. 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).

Known for

Access All Areas - The Making of Wallace and Gromit — Self- Director/Creator2024
The Making of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Self2023
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs — Self2022
Animation Outlaws — Self2019
Early Man — Hognob (voice)2018
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen — Self2018
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day — Timmy

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Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven 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).

He has also received seven BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was believed to be the most-watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.