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Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 555th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is Nick Park, a legendary animator and filmmaker who has, for the last 40 years, been the star of Ardman Animations, a company based in Bristol, England, that specializes in stop motion and clay animation.

Ardman is best known for two plasticine characters that Park created even before he began working there,

and since being there, has featured in four shorts and two features.

Wallace, a scatterbrain, cheese-loving bachelor in the north of England who enjoys inventing Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, and Gromit,

his faithful dog, who is actually quite a bit sharper than he is and tends to get him out of

the messes that he creates. Park personally has received six Oscar

nominations and taken home four Oscar statuettes, 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 Windsor McKay 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 the New York Times as brilliant, by the Wall Street Journal as a phenomenal

filmmaker, by the Washington Post as the undisputed, undefeated king of animation, and by the Los Angeles Times as among the best clay animators of his generation and Britain's foremost animator.

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