Source: Good News Network
Happy Birthday to Nick Park, the 4-time Oscar award-winning animator who turns 60 today. The English writer and director is best known for his claymation creations of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep—and his 2000 film Chicken Run became the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever.
Nick began filmmaking at age 13 with his mother’s home movie camera—and, like his father, he became an amateur inventor. The amazing characters of Wallace and Gromit, his dog, are depicted alongside their wild inventions going on extraordinary adventures.Three of those films won Academy Awards and belong on anyone’s ‘must see’ list: The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). The tantalizing short film Creature Comforts won Nick his first Oscar, after he lip-synced the voices of English people over interviews with claymation zoo animals complaining about not having enough open spaces and sunshine in the UK. WATCH that 5-minute masterpiece now… (1958)
Park’s recent work includes an American version of Creature Comforts, and a weekly CBS television series in which Americans were interviewed about a range of subjects, then lip-synced to his iconic animal characters. For 2018, he directed a similar stop-motion film, titled Early Man, which tells a story of a caveman who unites his tribe against the Bronze Age while unintentionally inventing football.
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