Nick Park

In 1990 Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed television advertisements for the "Heat Electric" campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among the best advertisements ever shown on British television, as voted (independently) by viewers of the UK's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4.

Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken Run (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television in 2003.

His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006.

In February 2011, Park made his first ever appearance, himself as an animated character in The Simpsons. Lisa Simpson asks Park, in case he does not receive the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film:

Lisa: Good luck, Mr Park. There'd be no shame in losing to you.

Park: Oh, that's very sweet of you. Thank you for saying so. [after shaking hands, Park's fingers come off]

Lisa: Agh!

Park: No worries. I'll just stick 'em back on. I'm more clay than man now.