Nick Park
Nick Park CBE RDI (born 6 December 1958) is a British stop-motion clay animation creator. He is one of the founders of Aardman Animations.
Aardman films have made $1 billion worldwide and average $147 million per film.[1] All of their films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films. Their debut, Chicken Run (2000), is their top-grossing film.[1] It is the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.[2]
Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).[3]
He has also directed the films Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Early Man.
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Park in 2005 promoting Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace and Gromit bronze sculpture in Preston, Lancashire.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aardman. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Wheatley, Cliff. Top 10 DreamWorks Animation Movies. IGN (17 June 2014). Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Aaardman – Company History. Retrieved 12 October 2011.