Nick Park Hotel near Chipping on 16 September 2016. Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of "Wallace and Gromit" and "Shaun the Sheep". 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 "" (2005). He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for "A Matter of Loaf and Death", which was also the most watched television programme in the
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