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Nick Park

1958 - Today

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Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nick Park is the 1,189th most popular film director (down from 988th in 2019), the 4,318th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,357th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nick Park ranks 1,189 out of 2,041. Before him are Mark Herman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Alan Ball, John Pilger, Giorgi Shengelaia, and Gerry Anderson. After him are Franz Antel, Francis Girod, Trey Parker, Joe Ranft, Morten Tyldum, and Vadim Abdrashitov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Nick Park ranks 315. Before him are Matt Frewer, Greg Germann, Li Shangfu, Grandmaster Flash, Satoshi Tezuka, and Kiki VanDeWeghe. After him are Frank Mill, Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Michael Flatley, Georgi Slavkov, Habib Koité, and Luiz Carlos Ferreira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nick Park ranks 4,319 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Davies (1979), Henry Liddell (1811), Margaret Leighton (1922), Gerry Anderson (1929), Liam Howlett (1971), and Amlaíb Cuarán (1000). After him are Donald Rayfield (1942), Estelle Winwood (1883), Robin Hill (1899), John Callen (1946), Mark Hughes (1963), and Margery Kempe (1373).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Nick Park ranks 90. Before him are Jon Amiel (1948), Benjamin Glazer (1887), Edgar Wright (1974), Roy Ward Baker (1916), Mark Herman (1954), and Gerry Anderson (1929). After him are Basil Dearden (1911), Freddie Francis (1917), John Grierson (1898), Anthony Harvey (1930), Peter R. Hunt (1925), and Geoffrey Unsworth (1914).

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