What is Nick Park?
[[File:Nick Park 2018.jpg|thumb|200px|Park in 2018]] '''Nick Park''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Royal Designers for Industry|RDI]] (born 6 December 1958) is a [[British people|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.<ref name=BOMAardman>{{cite web|title=Aardman|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=aardman.htm|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-date=25 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625122513/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=aardman.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> All of their films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films. Their debut, ''[[Chicken Run]]'' (2000), is their top-grossing film.<ref name=BOMAardman /> It is the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wheatley|first1=Cliff|title=Top 10 DreamWorks Animation Movies|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/16/top-10-dreamworks-animation-movies?page=2|website=IGN|access-date=26 July 2015|date=17 June 2014|quote=Impressively, Chicken Run is still the highest grossing stop motion animated movie of all time.}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aardman.com/about-us/history/|title=Aaardman – Company History|access-date=12 October 2011|archive-date=24 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824064404/https://www.aardman.com/the-studio/history//|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has also directed the films ''[[Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]'' and ''[[Early Man]]''. == References == {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Nick}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British animators]]