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Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE (born 4 November 1953) is a British animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Awards-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay animation films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
Lord is the producer/executive producer of every Aardman work, including Chicken Run, Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.
Experiments with animated clay characters synchronised with 'live' recorded soundtracks led to a series of films in the style of animated documentary. The first two were part of the BBC TV series Animated Conversations and were called "Down and Out" (1977) and "Confessions of a Foyer Girl" (1978) . These were followed in 1983 by Conversation Pieces, a series of five-minute long films produced for Channel 4. They were called "On Probation", Sales Pitch, "Palmy Days", "Late Edition" and "Early Bird".
In 1985 Nick Park joined the group.
Lord, Park and Sproxton developed and finalised their style of detailed and lovingly designed clay animation characters from Stop Motion (though directed by Stephen Johnson their claymation is shown in the music video "Sledgehammer" (1986) by Peter Gabriel). In 1991 Lord animated Adam, a 6-minute clay animation that was nominated for an Academy Award. Park created the "odd-couple" Wallace & Gromit-shorts in co-operation with Lord and Sproxton. All three together worked as producers, editors and directors. Other awarded productions by Peter Lord are Chicken Run (2000), the first feature film from Aardman and the Academy Award-winning (2005).
In 2006, Lord, Sproxton and Park were all given "the Freedom of the City of Bristol". In that same year, Lord (along with Sproxton) visited the "Aardman Exhibit" at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, where he met Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works. In 2013 Lord was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012).
Lord was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006.
On 9 July 2015, Lord received a Gold Blue Peter badge.
In August 2016, Lord was appointed a visiting professorship at Volda University College.
Three of Lord's films– War Story, Adam, and Wat's Pig–have been preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
In 2021, he was featured in the film Cartoon Carnival, a documentary about the origins of animation. “Cartoon Carnival” and Fleischer Tribute on TCM Saturday Oct. 2nd
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Story | ||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| 2006 | Flushed Away | Story | ||||
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | |||||
| 2012 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Actor: "Additional voices" | ||||
| 2013 | The Croods | Special thanks | ||||
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Executive producer | ||||
| 2018 | Early Man | |||||
| 2019 | Executive producer | |||||
| 2023 | Executive producer | |||||
| 2024 | Executive producer |
| 1977–1983 | Take Hart | Animator |
| 1977–1978 | Animated Conversations | Director; animator |
| 1980–1981 | The Amazing Adventures of Morph | Animator |
| 1986 | Pee-wee's Playhouse | Animation director |
| 1986 | No. 73 | Himself |
| 1995 | The Morph Files | Director; executive producer |
| 1998 | Rex the Runt | Executive producer |
| 2000 | Omnibus | Himself |
| 2000 | The Panel | Himself |
| 2002 | Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | Executive producer |
| 2003–2006 | Creature Comforts | |
| 2005–2007 | Planet Sketch | |
| 2006 | Planet Earth | Thanks |
| 2006 | Purple and Brown | Executive producer |
| 2007 | The Peculiar Adventures of Hector | |
| 2007–present | Shaun the Sheep | |
| 2008 | Chop Socky Chooks | |
| 2009–2012 | Timmy Time | |
| 2010 | Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention | |
| 2014–present | Morph | Executive producer; script writer |
| 1983 | Sales Pitch | Director; animator |
| 1983 | On Probation | Director; producer; animator |
| 1983 | Palmy Days | Director; animator |
| 1983 | Late Edition | Director; animator |
| 1983 | Early Bird | Director; animator |
| 1986 | Sledgehammer | Animator |
| 1986 | Babylon | Director; animator |
| 1987 | My Baby Just Cares for Me | Director |
| 1989 | War Story | Director; animator |
| 1989 | A Grand Day Out | Special thanks |
| 1990 | Going Equipped | Director; animator |
| 1992 | Adam | Director; writer; executive producer; art director; animator; model maker |
| 1992 | Never Say Pink Furry Die | Executive producer |
| 1993 | Loves Me, Loves Me Not | Executive producer |
| 1993 | The Wrong Trousers | Executive producer; additional animator |
| 1993 | Not Without My Handbag | Executive producer |
| 1995 | Pib and Pog | Executive producer |
| 1995 | A Close Shave | Executive producer |
| 1996 | Wat's Pig | Director; writer; executive producer; animator |
| 1997 | Stage Fright | Executive producer |
| 1997 | Owzat | Executive producer |
| 1999 | Humdrum | Executive producer |
| 1999 | Minotaur and Little Nerkin | Thanks |
| 2001 | Chunga Chui Leopard Beware | Executive producer |
| 2001 | Ernest | Executive producer |
| 2005 | Tales for the Rest of Us | Executive producer |
| 2005 | Ramble On | Executive producer |
| 2006 | Off Beat | Executive producer |
| 2007 | The Pearce Sisters | Executive producer |
| 2008 | A Matter of Loaf and Death | Executive producer |
| 2011 | The Itch of the Golden Nit | Executive producer |
| 2011 | Pythagasaurus | Executive producer |
| 2012 | So You Want to Be a Pirate! | Executive producer |
| 2015 | Heroes of Christmas | Inspiration |
| 2015 | Special Delivery | Story; creative director; voice of "Santa" |
| 2015 | Executive producer |
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