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
Nick Park United Kingdom's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4. Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television in 2003. His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, "", was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations'