Peter Lord
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Peter Lord, Nick Park
- 2001 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2001 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2001 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
- 2000 BAFTA-Children nominee
- Score: 24.51
There were a lot of disappointments in the 2000 summer movie season, but Chicken Run wasn’t one of them. Made by Aardman Animations, which produced the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit shorts, this is a dazzling stop-motion animation film that is both deftly funny and surprisingly touching. The concept is simple: The Great Escape—with chickens. But directors Peter Lord and Nick Park take it much further than that (and remember: there’s a whole generation out there that has no idea who Steve McQueen is). Julia Sawalha voices Ginger, a plucky English…
