Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English 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. He has also received seven BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was believed to be the most-watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film. In 1985 Park joined Aardman Animations, based in Bristol, and for his work in animation he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Peter Blake to appear in a 2012 version of Blake's most famous artwork - the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover - to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life. Park was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1997 Birthday Honours for "services to the animated film industry".