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Nick Park was born in Preston in Lancashire, and grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons. He studied Commnication Arts at Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) and then went to the National Film and Television School, where he started making the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out.

In 1985 he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products (including the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer") and completed A Grand Day Out. With A Grand Day Out in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called "Lip Synch". Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards; A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first OscarBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p.

Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong TrousersThe Wrong Trousers is a 1993 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit, (1992) and A Close ShaveA Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit, follow (1995), followed, and both won Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken RunChicken Run is a stop motion film made by the Aardman Animation studios (which produced the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit shorts), which had its theatrical release in 2000. Chicken Run is the humorous story of a band of chickens who seek escape from th (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He is working on a Wallace and Gromit feature for release in 2004, and is supervising a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television.