Nick Park, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a legendary animator and filmmaker who has, for the last 40 years, been the star employee of Aardman Animations, a company based in Bristol, England, that specializes in stop-motion and clay animation. Both Park and Aardman are best known for two plasticine characters that Park created even before he began working at Aardman, and has put at the center of four shorts and two features: Wallace and Gromit.
Park personally has been nominated for six Oscars and won four — three for best animated short and one for best animated feature. He has also won a Peabody Award; six BAFTA awards; and three Annie awards, plus the Winsor McCay Annie Award for career achievement. And he was made a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Honors in 1997. He has been described by
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