Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI, is a British animator, director, producer and writer who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
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 United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.
For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.