Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park, C.B.E. (born December 6, 1958) is a British maker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit.

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December 6 - 1958 - British - Stop motion - Animation - Wallace and Gromit

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Nick Park was born in Preston in Lancashire, and grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons. He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) and then went to the National Film and Television School, where he started making the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out.

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Preston - Lancashire - Sheffield Hallam University - National Film and Television School - A Grand Day Out

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In 1985 he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products (including the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer") and completed A Grand Day Out. With A Grand Day Out in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called "Lip Synch". Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards; A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first Oscar.

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Aardman Animations - Bristol - Peter Gabriel - Creature Comforts - BAFTA - Oscar

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Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers (1992) and A Close Shave (1995), followed, and both won Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken Run (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. His second feature film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, ', was released in October 2005. He is also supervising a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television.

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The Wrong Trousers - A Close Shave - Chicken Run - Wallace and Gromit

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