Nick Park is an English director born in Preston, Lancashire, celebrated for meticulously crafted stop-motion animation centered on the beloved Wallace & Gromit characters. A Grand Day Out, his early student film introducing the eccentric inventor Wallace and his silently expressive dog Gromit, established the gentle, distinctly British comic sensibility that became his trademark, developed at Aardman Animations. The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, both winning Academy Awards for Best Animated Short, refined his gift for visual gags built on painstaking clay-model expressiveness, while Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit brought the characters to a feature-length format and won a further Academy Award. Chicken Run showed his range into feature-length ensemble stop-motion comedy. Park's meticulous, warmly comic stop-motion craftsmanship has made him one of the most beloved and awarded figures in the history of animation. Read more