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
Exploding trousers line starting to smoke. There were also several reports of trousers exploding while farmers were wearing them, causing severe burns. The history was written up by James Watson of Massey University in a widely reported article, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers", and which later won him an Ig Nobel Prize In their May 2006 "Exploding Pants" episode the popular U.S. television show "MythBusters" investigated the idea that trousers could explode based on the events of New Zealand in the 1930s. Experimenters tested four substances on 100% cotton overalls: the common name for nitrocellulose. Each of these were