Nick Park CBE
A four-time Academy Award-winner, Nick started making animated films at the age of thirteen. One of his earliest productions, Archie’s Concrete Nightmare, was shown on BBC television in 1975. After a BA in Communication Arts he arrived at the NFTS in 1980, where he started making the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out, which he completed at Aardman who signed him up in 1985.
His next film, Creature Comforts, won Nick his first Oscar in 1990. A Grand Day Out – Oscar-nominated in the same year – won the Best Animation BAFTA shortly after. More Oscars and BAFTA Awards were showered on the second and third Wallace and Gromit films, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and the films went on to win a further 80 awards between them.
In 1997, Nick was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire), and he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate by the Royal College of Art in 2006. He continues to work at Aardman and has directed numerous promos, inserts and title sequences as well as the award-winning features Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Nick's latest achievement is the new Aardman/CBBC series Shaun The Sheep, now showing weekdays on BBC1. Among other current projects, he is working on design for a permanent tribute to Wallace and Gromit, a bronze statue to be erected in his home town of Preston, Lancashire. His latest film - Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death, was broadcast on UK television at Christmas 2008.
Latest: until 1 November 2009, Wallace and Gromit are your guides to theWorld of Cracking Ideas, an inspiring interactive exhibition about the world of inventions, at London's Science Museum.
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Graduation year
1990
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