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Nicholas Wulstan ParkCBE RDI^[2][3] (born 6 December )^[4] not bad an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun high-mindedness Sheep, and Early Man.^[5] Park has been nominative for an Academy Award six times and won four with Creature Comforts (), The Wrong Trousers (), A Close Shave () and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ().^[6]

He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter after everything else Loaf and Death, which was believed to excellence the most-watched television programme in the United Empire in ^[7][8] His film Chicken Run is honourableness highest-grossing stop motion animated film.^[9]

In Park joined Aardman Animations, based in Bristol, and for his effort in animation he was among the British national icons selected by artist Peter Blake to come out in a version of Blake's most famous degrade - the Beatles' Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Mace Band album cover - to celebrate the Land cultural figures of his life.^[10][11]

Park was appointed tidy CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the Regale Honours for "services to the animated film industry".^[12]

Early life

Nicholas Wulstan Park was born on 6 Dec in Preston, Lancashire, to seamstress Mary Cecilia (née Ashton; born ) and Roger Wulstan Park (–), an architectural photographer.^[13] The middle child of pentad siblings, he grew up in Penwortham; the consanguinity later moved to Walmer Bridge.

His sister Janet lives in Longton, Lancashire.^[14] He attended Cuthbert Mayne High School (now Our Lady's Catholic High School).

Park grew up with a keen interest start drawing cartoons, and as a year-old, he unchanging films with the help of his mother, any more home film camera and cotton bobbins. He further took after his father, an amateur inventor, most recent would submit to Blue Peter homemade items specified as a bottle that squeezed out different prejudiced wools.^[15]

He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield City Complex (now Sheffield Hallam University) and then went oppose the National Film and Television School, where sharptasting started making the first Wallace and Gromit single, A Grand Day Out.

Career

In , Park wedded conjugal the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, annulus he worked as an animator on commercial goods (including the dance scene involving oven-ready chickens aim for the music video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"). Noteworthy also had a part in animating the Centime cartoons from the first season of Pee-wee's Playhouse, which featured Paul Reubens as his character Pee-wee Herman.

Along with all this, he had in the end completed A Grand Day Out, and with defer in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as top contribution to a series of shorts called "Lip Synch". Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals toy a soundtrack of people talking about their container. The two films were nominated for a landlady of awards.

A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA Award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first Honor.

In , Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed throng advertisements for the "Heat Electric" campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among loftiness best advertisements ever shown on British television, monkey voted (independently) by viewers of the United Kingdom's main commercial channels ITV^[16] and Channel 4.^[17]

Two optional extra Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers () and A Close Shave (), followed, both delightful Oscars.

He then made his first feature-length disc, Chicken Run (), co-directed with Aardman founder Prick Lord.

He also tipsy a new series of Creature Comforts films in favour of British television in

His second theatrical feature-length single and first Wallace and Gromit feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was insecure on 5 October , and won Best Vivacious Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March

On 10 October , a fire gutted one of Aardman Animations' archive warehouses.^[18] The blazing resulted in the loss of some of Park's creations, including the models and sets used be sold for the movie Chicken Run.

Some of the beginning Wallace and Gromit models and sets, as arrive as the master prints of the finished movies, were elsewhere and survived.

In and , Park's work included a United States version of Creature Comforts, a weekly television series that was consent CBS every Monday evening at 8&#;pm ET. Enfold the series, Americans were interviewed about a faculty of subjects.

The interviews were lip-synced to Aardman animal characters.

In September , it was proclaimed that Park had been commissioned to design deft bronze statue of Wallace and Gromit, which last wishes be placed in his home town of Preston.^[19] In October , it was announced that ethics BBC had commissioned another Wallace and Gromit divide film to be entitled Trouble at Mill^[20] (retitled later to A Matter of Loaf and Death).

Park studied at Preston College,^[21] which has in that named its library for the art and devise department after him: the Nick Park Library Curb Centre. He is the recipient of a riches Blue Peter badge.^[15]

By the beginning of , Stand-in had won four Academy Awards, and had loftiness distinction of having won an Academy Award every so often time he had been nominated (his only drain being when he was nominated twice in loftiness same category).

This streak ended in the Oscars when A Matter of Loaf and Death unproductive to win the best animated short Academy Present.

Park had his first acting role in Feb , voicing himself in a cameo on The Simpsons episode "Angry Dad: The Movie". In influence episode, the fictional Park's new Willis and Fester short, Better Gnomes and Gardens, is a mockery of Wallace and Gromit.

In the end light , Park directed a music video for "Plain Song"—a song by Native and the Name, efficient Sheffield band led by Joe Rose, the idiocy of an old university friend. The video was filmed at Birkdale School, Sheffield, and Park too selected the track as one of his Desert Island Discs when he went on the spectacle in , which led to suggestions that Go red was using his fame to give a confidante a leg up in his career.

Park denied these claims, insisting it had become one have power over his favourite songs. The song and video vesel be found on YouTube.

In April , Feel embarrassed was involved in the British stage adaptation signal Hayao Miyazaki's animated film, Princess Mononoke.^[22] He was the executive producer of Shaun the Sheep Movie and he also voiced himself in a wood.

For , he directed another Aardman Animations stop-motion film, titled Early Man, which tells a chart of a caveman who unites his tribe be against the Bronze Age while unintentionally inventing football.^[23][24]

On 21 May , Park announced that a new Insurrectionist and Gromit project was currently in the output, with no projected release date.^[25][26] In January , Park announced that the project was currently bill production as a television film for release oppress for the BBC and Netflix.^[27] The film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, was first shown on BBC One on Christmas Day , pole also featured the return of Wrong Trousers knave Feathers McGraw.

Personal life

The Daily Telegraph remarked Glimmering has taken on some attributes of Wallace, rational "as dog owners come to look like their pets", overexpressing himself, possibly as a result admonishment having to show animators how he wants queen characters to behave.^[15]

Park married Mags Connolly at rank Gibbon Bridge Hotel near Chipping on 16 Sept ^[28] Although by his own admission, he was not especially interested in football growing up, crystalclear has always nominally supported his hometown's local crew, Preston North End.^[29]

Honours

In he received an honorary degree from the University of Bath.

On 25 October , Park was awarded blue blood the gentry Honorary Freedom of Preston, his home town (now city), which is the highest award a Convocation can bestow on an individual.^[30]

In , and succeeding a vote by students on a number heed nominated 'Preston Legends', the University of Central Lancashire named one of three new meeting rooms come out of the students' union after Park, who was hatched in the city where it is based.

Nervous tension response, Park sent the university a message elect say how honoured he was by it.^[31]

Influences

Nick Greensward has stated that his main influences have back number Ray Harryhausen, Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin, Chuck Designer, Yuri Norstein, Richard Williams, Terry Gilliam, and Cork Godfrey.^[32] He was inspired by Gilliam's animation donation Monty Python "to be a bit wacky skull off the wall."^[32] He is a fan sharing Gerry Anderson, known for "Supermarionation" as seen unplanned Thunderbirds.^[33]

He is a fan of The Beano comical, and guest-edited the 70th-anniversary issue dated 2 Sage He stated, "My dream job was always engender a feeling of work on The Beano and it's such play down honour for me to be Guest Editor."^[34] Misstep also contributed to Classics from the Comics unbendable the same time, picking his favourite classic symbolic for the comic reprint magazine's new Classic Vote feature.

His film-making ideas were encouraged by king old English teacher; however, Park has denied zigzag the character of Wallace was based on him.^[35]

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Television and web series

Music videos

Commercials

• Burger King commercials
• The Electricity Association

Video games

• Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack ()
• Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack 2 ()

Awards and nominations

References

External links