Nick Park

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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Animator, Screen Story
Born:
December 6, 1958
Biography:A man whose creative brilliance is superceded only by the eccentricities on display in his work, writer/director/producer/animator "Nick Park" has been revolutionizing the art of claymation since 1989, when he made the Oscar-winning short Creature Comforts. Working in concert with Aardman Animations, Park has created a bizarre, inextricably British universe where mute dogs solve riddles that elude their dim owners, penguins plot dastardly deeds, chickens act out their own version of The Great Escape, and cheese is granted a standing of disquieting importance.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, on December 6, 1958, Park was exposed to both chickens and animation at an early age. He made his first animated film at the age of 13 and made his professional debut four years later, on BBC television, with the animated short Archie's Concrete Nightmare (1975). After attending the Sheffield Art School, where he... Full Biography

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Nick Park, creator/director of "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
Nick Park, creator/director of "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
Nick Park and Steve Box, winners Best Animated Feature for “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the...
Nick Park and Steve Box, winners Best Animated Feature for “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the...
Nick Park and Steve Box, winners Best Animated Feature for “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the...
Nick Park, winner Best Animated Feature for “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
Nick Park and Steve Box, winners Best Animated Feature for “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the...
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