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
wallace and gromit
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Wallace, the scattered entrepreneurial protagonist created by the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, has an invention for everything. The modest suburban home on Wallaby Street that Wallace shares with his expressive beagle, Gromit, is filled with Rube Goldberg-esque gizmos. One machine, functioning as a kind of alarm, ejects