"This
is amazing! We tried to do something a little different with THE
PIRATES, in terms of tone and comedy, and it’s just brilliant that the
Academy has responded to it in such a wonderful way."
For more information on this Aardman film presented by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, please visit http://sonywonder.com/thepirates/ and see below a biography for Peter Lord:
PETER LORD BIOGRAPHY
PETER LORD (Director/Producer)
is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with
his long-time collaborator David Sproxton in 1972. As a director, Lord has been
honoured with two Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first
in 1992 for Adam, and again in 1996 for Wat’s Pig. He has
also earned BAFTA nominations for Adam, The Amazing Adventures
of Morph, and War Story.
In 2000, Lord teamed up with Nick Park to co-direct
Aardman’s first full-length feature Chicken Run, starring the voice of
Mel Gibson, which was a commercial and critical smash. Lord also produced the
Oscar®-winning first feature length film starring Wallace and his faithful
canine sidekick Gromit. Wallace and
Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in 2005. He most recently produced Aardman’s
CG-animated Arthur Christmas, which
was released November 2011. The film was
nominated for a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
Lord first met David Sproxton in the late 1960s at school,
where they started experimenting with animation techniques on their kitchen
table. They tried a range of methods before settling on plasticine/clay model
animation. While they were still in their teens, a BBC children’s television
producer offered them the chance to make short animated films for his program
Vision On. Their first character as professionals was Morph, who later starred in his own series, The Amazing Adventures of Morph. As a testament to Morph’s enduring
appeal, he still appears in new productions today.
Moving to Bristol in 1976, Lord and Sproxton built Aardman
into one of the world’s leading model animation studios. In 1978, Aardman was
commissioned by BBC Bristol to make two short films entitled Animated
Conversations. The resulting Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl,
both co-directed by Lord and Sproxton, broke new ground in animation by using
recordings of real-life conversations. That led to a series of five Conversation
Pieces for the UK’s
Channel 4, all of which were co-directed by Lord and Sproxton, including Early
Bird and On Probation. Expanding into music
videos, Aardman collaborated with director Stephen Johnson and the
Brothers
Quay to create Peter Gabriel’s award-winning video “Sledgehammer.” In
1987, Lord created the video for Nina Simone’s “My Baby Just Cares for
Me.” Two years
later, Channel 4 again commissioned Aardman to create the five-picture Lip
Synch series, which
included Lord’s War Story. Lord’s other directing credits include Going
Equipped and Babylon.
Together with Sproxton, Lord has also played a major role in encouraging and
promoting new directors. His executive producer credits with Aardman include Creature
Comforts, Rex The Runt, HumDrum, Stage
Fright, and more
recently, A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Aardman’s special brand of animation has also been seen in
TV commercials in various countries for such products as far ranging as Lurpack, Mita Copiers, Chevron, Hersheys, and Polo.
Lord was involved in the production of Aardman’s first CGI
feature film Flushed Away which
was produced in collaboration with DreamWorks. It was Aardman’s first foray
into CGI and was released worldwide at the end of 2006.
Peter Lord is a visiting professor at UWE and also attends
numerous animation and film festivals to give talks and sit on juries.
In 2006 Peter Lord and David Sproxton celebrated 30 years of
Aardman and were awarded CBEs in the Queen’s Birthday honours list.
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