Nick Park

Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace and 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. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nick Park has received more than 1,431,418 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Nick Park is the 911th most popular film director (up from 954th in 2019), the 3,246th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,377th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Film Director.