Biography
Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE (born 4 November 1953) is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! Band of Misfits from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. Lord is the producer/executive producer of every Aardman work, including Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
Awards & recognition
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- European Film Award — Best Animated Feature Film · 2018 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2013 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Animated Feature Film · 2012 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Film · 2000 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1997 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Animated Short Film · 1993 · nominated
Filmography25 titles
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Classic Albums
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Creature Comforts
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Robin Robin
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
The Croods
Claydream
Arthur Christmas
Chicken Run
The Morph Files
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Great British Menu
Animation Outlaws
Flushed Away
The Making of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Early Man
Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story