Nick Park
Nick Park is a four-time Academy Award®-winner, three in the category of Best Animated Short Film - Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and Best Animated Feature Film for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. All four films were created and produced at Aardman studios, in Bristol, where Nick is an executive director.
Nick joined Aardman in 1985 to complete his college film A Grand Day Out and served as a director and animator on numerous projects including pop promos, title sequences and inserts for children’s television. Alongside Peter Lord, Nick co-directed the studio's first feature film, the highly acclaimed box office hit Chicken Run.
In 2005 the first Wallace & Gromit feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released worldwide. Along with co-director Steve Box, Park picked up his fourth Academy Award®, this time for Best Animated Feature Film (2006).
Wallace and Gromit’s A Matter of Loaf and Death was broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 2008 to a record beating 16.15M viewers.
The world of Wallace & Gromit is always in Nick’s mind, but his 2018 film featured a very different world that he wanted to share, the pre-historic world of Early Man.
Wallace and Gromit are set to return in a new film for winter 2024 which will be released by Netflix globally, and premiere on the BBC in the UK. Vengeance Most Fowl will be directed by Nick alongside long-time collaborator, Wallace & Gromit creative director Merlin Crossingham.
Nick is a lifetime member of BAFTA, AMPAS and ASIFA and is a patron of the Bristol based charity Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal. In 1997, Nick was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
Nick’s much-loved characters can be seen globally across many types of licensed merchandise, games and interactive experiences, in advertising campaigns and giant sculpts in charity trails. The common thread is that they always raise a smile.