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Chicken Run was Aardman’s first full-length theatrical feature film to be funded by DreamWorks. Directed by both Peter Lord and Nick Park it was released in June 2000 in the US and UK to excellent reviews and outstanding box office receipts. Chicken Run has grossed over $220M at the worldwide box office.
Rev Peter Lord passed away peacefully in his home on Thursday March 4, 2021. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on November 19, 1929. At 16 years of age he left Jamaica to come to the United States to attend college at Bob Jones University.
Jun 19, 2020 · Peter Lord was still at high school when he began his animation partnership with David Sproxton. The two would go on to form Aardman Animations and, later also with Nick Park, set a high bar for stop-motion animation, providing the world with Morph, Creature Comforts, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep , The Pirates! and many more commercials, TV shows and films.
Peter Lord is an animation legend. He co-founded Aardman at only 17 years old, co-directed Chicken Run, was animator of Morph, produced Shaun the Sheep and n...
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Peter Lord and David Sproxton began their animating partnership at school. In 1972 they registered the name Aardman Animations. After graduating, they moved to Bristol in 1976 where they produced their first professional production, creating Morph for the children’s programme 'Take Hart'.
Peter Lord is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with his long-time collaborator, David Sproxton, in 1972. As a director, he has been honoured with two Academy Award ® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam , and for Wat’s Pig in 1996, and Best Animated Feature for Pirates!
Earlier this year I traded emails with Peter Lord, who was my pastor for a couple of years when I was a mid-twenty-something young man just starting out in my career. Now somewhere around 82, he’s retired from the pastorate but still active in teaching people how to hear God and care for their soul. Many readers won’t recognize the name.
