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Nick Park

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Born December 6, 1958 · Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

Also known as Nicholas Wulstan Park · Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park

Biography

Nicholas Wulstan Park is a British filmmaker, animator, and voice actor who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep. 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 also was the co-director, co-producer, and storyboard artist of Early Man (2018) and provided vocal sound effects for Hognob, a dog-like warthog who has dog behaviors, also Dug's pet warthog.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA

Awards & recognition

  • Winsor McCay Award · 2008
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2006
  • Royal Designer — Industry · 2006
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1996
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1994
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  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1991
  • Annie Award
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2025 · nominated
  • European Film Award — Best Animated Feature Film · 2018 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 2010 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2006 · nominated
  • European Film Award – People's Choice Award — Best European Film · 2006 · nominated
  • European Film Award — Best Film · 2000 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1996 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1994 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1991 · nominated

Filmography21 titles

Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

2002Producer, Story Developer

Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

2002Producer, Story Developer

The Simpsons

1989as Nick Park (voice)

Shaun the Sheep

2007Characters, Producer

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

2024Director, Executive Producer, Story

Creature Comforts

2003Creator

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom

2026Characters, Executive Producer

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

2011as Self

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005Characters, Director, Producer, Screenplay

Shaun the Sheep Movie

2015as Himself (voice) (uncredited)

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023Characters, Executive Producer

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

2021Characters

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

2019Characters, Executive Producer

Chicken Run

2000Director, Producer, Story

Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas

2015Executive Producer

Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention

2010Executive Producer, Producer

Timmy Time

2009Producer

Animation Outlaws

2019as Self

The Making of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023as Self

Early Man

2018as Hognob (voice)

The One Show

2006as Self