FILM DIRECTOR

Nick Park

1958 - Today

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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 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). 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nick Park has received more than 1,628,106 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nick Park is the 986th most popular film director (down from 924th in 2019), the 3,357th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,238th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nick Park ranks 986 out of 2,041. Before him are Christopher McQuarrie, Louis Daquin, Kurt Maetzig, Harry Beaumont, Pasqualino De Santis, and Danièle Thompson. After him are Alex van Warmerdam, Helmut Dietl, Masaaki Yuasa, Stuart Gordon, Mary Harron, and Sergey Obraztsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Nick Park ranks 224. Before him are Mircea Geoană, Lita Ford, Duško Marković, Raul Khajimba, Rodion Cămătaru, and Paula-Mae Weekes. After him are Remigijus Valiulis, Walburga Habsburg Douglas, Shafi Goldwasser, Jack Coleman, Julia Nickson, and Salima Ghezali.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nick Park ranks 3,357 out of 8,785. Before him are John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887), Matt Monro (1930), Margaret Price (1941), Miles Dempsey (1896), and Dominic Cooper (1978). After him are Simon McBurney (1957), Michael Tippett (1905), James Donald (1917), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Gary Lewis (1957), and Taylor Caldwell (1900).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Nick Park ranks 75. Before him are Martin McDonagh (1970), Anthony Harvey (1930), Jack Cardiff (1914), Benjamin Glazer (1887), Peter R. Hunt (1925), and Tony Kaye (1952). After him are Roy Ward Baker (1916), Mike Figgis (1948), Barry Ackroyd (1954), John Alcott (1930), Charles Jarrott (1927), and Gerry Anderson (1929).

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Filmography

Chicken Run
Director
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
Jun 23o 20006.8 / 10
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Director
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Sep 15o 20057.096 / 10
The Wrong Trousers
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Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Dec 17o 19937.8 / 10