Oscar and Emmy-nominated PES is the creator of some of the most widely viewed stop-motion films of all time including Fresh Guacamole, Western Spaghetti, Submarine Sandwich, Game Over, Human Skateboard, KaBoom! and Roof Sex. On his YouTube Channel alone, PES's films have amassed over 1.4 billion views.

PES's uncanny knack for transforming familiar objects and people through stop-motion animation has earned him global recognition and dozens of honors, including an Academy Award® nomination in 2013 for Fresh Guacamole (2012). At 1 minute 40 seconds, the film is the shortest ever nominated for an Oscar, as confirmed by The New York Times and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. With over a billion views online, it remains the most-viewed Oscar short in history.

PES is the originator of the stop-motion cooking film genre, beginning with Western Spaghetti (2008). The film was named Time Magazine's #2 Viral Video of the Year and won the Audience Award at Annecy in 2009. His three stop-motion cooking shorts -- Western Spaghetti (2008), Fresh Guacamole (2012) and Submarine Sandwich (2014) -- have been widely imitated online, spawning thousands of copycat works and establishing the form as a widely recognized internet meme.

In addition to his original films, PES has directed over 75 commercials for international brands including Corona, Honda, Android, Orange Telecom, Kinder Surprise, PlayStation, Sprint, Samsung and Bacardi. Several of these -- including Coinstar (2004), Milo & Maria (2006), Human Skateboard (2007), Swan Song (2014) and The Fish (2019) -- have garnered tens, and in some cases hundreds, of millions of views on YouTube.

In 2016, PES received an Emmy® Award nomination for directing Honda "Paper", a two-minute stop-motion tour de force chronicling the 50-year history of the Honda Motor Company. The spot went on to win numerous advertising industry honors including the One Show's "Automobile Advertising of the Year Award." It was also added to the permanent collections of both the Louvre's Museum of Advertising and The Museum of Modern Art.

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