---
name: "Nick Park"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-park"
fi1m_id: "nick-park"
imdb_id: "nm0661910"
tmdb_id: 7314
wikidata_id: "Q336206"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "6 December 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-22T03:22:35.254585+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nick Park

## Identity

Nick Park

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-park
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nick-park
- **IMDb ID:** nm0661910
- **TMDB ID:** 7314
- **Wikidata ID:** Q336206
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Park, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336206, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7314

Writer and producer. Born 6 December 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 6 December 1958, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:** Nicholas Wulstan Park, Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 4 directing, 4 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Mark Burton](https://film.one/person/mark-burton.md), [Peter Lord](https://film.one/person/peter-lord.md), [David Sproxton](https://film.one/person/david-sproxton.md), [Claire Jennings](https://film.one/person/claire-jennings.md), [Peter Kay](https://film.one/person/peter-kay.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscars (4 won · 2 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (2), 2010s 75 (3), 2020s 74 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 75 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 4, Animation 4, Comedy 4, Family 4, Horror 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $149m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Park, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336206, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7314

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md) (81)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Early Man*](https://film.one/film/early-man.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Nick Park

> Nick Park makes stop-motion comedy worth caring about, giving clay faces precise reactions and improbable heroes serious concerns. We recommend him warmly, with a small reservation about how long the escape-film jokes in *Chicken Run* can stretch.

Gromit makes his feelings clear with his eyes and eyebrows, without saying a word. Nick Park gives that small performance time to register, even among the contraptions and slapstick. We know where to look because the face is doing something worth watching. His preference for clay that still looks handled suits these characters, whose movements and reactions have to do so much of the work.

*A Grand Day Out* (1990) introduced Wallace and Gromit, and *The Wrong Trousers* (1993) developed their partnership through inventive plotting. Park moved into features with *Chicken Run* (2000), co-directed with Peter Lord, bringing that attention to small differences in behaviour to a whole flock. Wallace and Gromit then got their own feature in *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005). The important change for his comedy was the longer running time, which asks more of a premise as well as its characters.

In *Chicken Run*, Karey Kirkpatrick's screenplay turns a Yorkshire chicken coop into a prisoner-of-war camp. Lord and Park make the birds' attempts to leave the farm matter without requiring us to recognise the films being borrowed from. Ginger's determination keeps the situation clear, and much of the humour comes from the chickens treating escape as serious work. We cared about them because the directors gave their wish to get out the same attention an escape film would give its human prisoners. The expressive animation lets each inmate have a personality beyond a place in the next joke.

The prison-camp routine does occasionally stretch thin, and even at 84 minutes *Chicken Run* has passages that could move faster. Its expressive inmates do enough to keep those stretches enjoyable, though a firmer edit would have helped the jokes. For a first encounter, choose *Chicken Run*; no knowledge of prison-camp films is required.

## Biography

Nick Park is an English animator, director and producer. Born in Preston, Lancashire, he studied at the National Film and Television School and joined Aardman Animations in 1985.

He created the Wallace & Gromit series, directing the shorts *A Grand Day Out* (1990), *The Wrong Trousers* (1993), *A Close Shave* (1995) and *A Matter of Loaf and Death* (2008), as well as the features *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005) and *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024). He co-directed *Chicken Run* (2000) with Peter Lord, on which he also received story and producer credits, and directed *Early Man* (2018).

Park has won four Academy Awards, for *Creature Comforts* (1989), *The Wrong Trousers*, *A Close Shave* and *The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

### Directed (4)

- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), Fi1m 81, Story, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)
- *Early Man* (2018), Fi1m 68, as Hognob (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/early-man.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Fi1m 87, Characters, Producer, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md)
- *Chicken Run* (2000), Fi1m 84, Producer, Director, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run.md)

### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these

- *Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom* (2026), Fi1m 77, Executive Producer, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-the-beast-of-mossy-bottom.md)
- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)
- *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019), Fi1m 78, Characters, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon.md)
- *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015), Fi1m 80, as Himself (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom* (2026), Executive Producer, Characters — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-the-beast-of-mossy-bottom.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), Director, Story, Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit: The Collection* (2024), Director
- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Executive Producer, Characters — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)
- *Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas* (2021), Characters
- *Timmy's Cinema Adventure* (2020), Characters, Executive Producer
- *A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* (2019), Characters, Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon.md)
- *Early Man* (2018), as Hognob (voice) · Director, Story, Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/early-man.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit - Hearts of Clay* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day* (2017), as Timmy
- *Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Wallace & Gromit x Visit England* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015), Executive Producer, Characters — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-movie.md)
- *Wallace & Gromit x Google Hangout | A Video Call with Aardman Friends!* (2012), Creator, Writer
- *Shaun the Sheep Championsheeps* (2012), series, Creator
- *Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon* (2012), Director
- *Shaun the Sheep: Shear Madness* (2012), Idea, Executive Producer
- *Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention* (2010), series, Producer, Executive Producer
- *Shaun the Sheep: Party Animals* (2010), Idea, Executive Producer
- *Shaun the Sheep: One Giant Leap for Lambkind* (2010), Idea, Executive Producer
- *Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb* (2010), as Timmy
- *Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention* (2010), Actor
- *Timmy Time* (2009), series, Producer
- *A Matter of Loaf and Death* (2008), Director, Author
- *All About 'Thunderbirds'* (2008), Actor
- *Creature Comforts* (2007), series, Executive Producer
- *Shaun the Sheep* (2007), series, Producer, Characters
- *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Screenplay, Characters, Director, Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md)
- *Creature Comforts* (2003), series, Creator
- *Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions* (2002), Writer
- *Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions* (2002), series, Story Developer, Producer, Creator
- *The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit* (2001), Writer, Director
- *Chickens Go in, Pies Come Out* (2000), Actor
- *Fowl Play - The Making of Chicken Run* (2000), Actor
- *Chicken Run* (2000), Producer, Director, Story — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run.md)
- *Aardman Classics* (2000), Director
- *Les chefs-d’œuvre du Studio Aardman* (1999), Director
- *Wallace & Gromit in A Grand Day Out* (1998), series, Director, Writer
- *Stage Fright* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation* (1996), Scenario Writer, Director
- *A Close Shave* (1996), Director, Writer, Animation
- *The World's Greatest Animation* (1994), Director
- *The Wrong Trousers* (1993), Animation, Director, Writer, Characters
- *A Grand Day Out* (1990), Director of Photography, Director, Animation, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Nick Park (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *War Story* (1989), Animation
- *Creature Comforts* (1989), Director, Animation, Writer
- *Pixilated in the Park* (1988), Director
- *Sledgehammer* (1986), Animation
- *Hog* (1978), Director, Animation
- *A Fisherman's Tale* (1976), Director
- *Archie's Concrete Nightmare* (1975), Director
- *Rat and the Beanstalk* (1971), Director
- *Walter Goes Fishing* (1971), Director
- *Omnibus* (1967), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Comedian and singer Bernard Wrigley with Aardman animator Nick Park at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-e71a2f67d767.jpg) Comedian and singer Bernard Wrigley with Aardman animator Nick Park at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007 — Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Bernard_Wrigley_and_Nick_Park%2C_BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards_2007.jpg/1280px-Bernard_Wrigley_and_Nick_Park%2C_BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards_2007.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A model of Feathers McGraw from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl on display in Bristol. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-2b96f20b0dcb.jpg) A model of Feathers McGraw from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl on display in Bristol. (2024) — Humbledaisy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/FeathersMcGraw2024.jpg/1280px-FeathersMcGraw2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cell set from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl on display in Bristol. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-2d0c43b342a2.jpg) Cell set from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl on display in Bristol. (2024) — Humbledaisy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/FeathersSet2024.jpg/1280px-FeathersSet2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A model of Gromit on display in Bristol (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-c7572f91e055.jpg) A model of Gromit on display in Bristol (2024) — Humbledaisy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/GromitCrop2024.jpg/1280px-GromitCrop2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nick Park](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-ffaa4a665f15.jpg) Nick Park — Image via TMDB
- ![Nick Park](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-dcfc531316b4.jpg) Nick Park — Image via TMDB
- ![Nick Park](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-be553c222590.jpg) Nick Park — Image via TMDB
- ![Nick Park](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-dbd20f23553e.jpg) Nick Park — Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Nick_Park%2C_BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards_2007.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nick Park](https://film.one/media/person/97118/gallery-a22fb4bdc269.jpg) Nick Park — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 4 won, 2 nominated

- 2025: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*
- 2010: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *A Matter of Loaf and Death*
- 2006: Best Animated Feature (won), for *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*
- 1996: Best Animated Short Film (won), for *A Close Shave*
- 1994: Best Animated Short Film (won), for *The Wrong Trousers*
- 1991: Best Animated Short Film (won), for *Creature Comforts*

### Other awards — 2 won, 3 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2018: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *Early Man*
- Winsor McCay Award 2008: Winsor McCay Award (won)
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2006: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*
- Royal Designer for Industry 2006: Royal Designer for Industry (won)
- European Film Award for Best Film 2000: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Chicken Run*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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