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Andrew Ralph Adamson MNZM (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, where he directed the Academy Award-winning animated films Shrek and Shrek 2. He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for the 2005 production of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He also worked on the movies Batman Forever and Batman & Robin as a visual effects supervisor.

Andrew Adamson MNZM
Adamson in 2013
Born	(1966-12-01) 1 December 1966 (age 55) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Film director, film producer, screenwriter, DJ
Years active	1990-present
Spouse	Gyulnara Karaeva[1]
Children	2

He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to film, in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours.[2]

Personal life

Adamson's parents were a homemaker and a computer engineer. Born in New Zealand, Adamson moved to Papua New Guinea with his parents aged eleven, and he returned to Auckland aged eighteen. When 24, he moved to San Francisco, and divided time between there and Los Angeles. Since making the Narnia films, he has settled back in New Zealand. Adamson has two children. [3]

Career

Adamson wanted to be an architect, but missed a university enrollment deadline because of a car accident.[4] Andrew Adamson was recruited by Pacific Data Images to go to work in the USA. The company opened an office in the California city of Los Angeles. There he served as a technical director in the following movies: Toys (1992), starring Robin Williams, and Angels in the Outfield (1994), starring Danny Glover. Previously. Andrew specialised in ads but preferred the idea of telling a story in longer format. Andrew served as visual effects supervisor in the 1995 film Batman Forever, A Time to Kill (1996), and Batman & Robin (1997).

Shrek

Adamson directed Shrek (the first installment in the series), based on the 1990 picture book written by William Steig[5] with a modest budget of US$60 million in 2001. However, the film became a worldwide success, taking in nearly $500 million in the box office, including more than $40 million in its opening week-end. The film featured the lead voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow.

The next film in the series Shrek 2 (2004) had a big Hollywood budget of around $150 million, and was even a bigger success than the first film, taking in more than $900 million worldwide. The film opened to over $100 million, one of the highest openings ever at the time. Adamson directed this film and also wrote the story.

However, he did not direct the next film in the series, Shrek the Third, as he had been contracted by Walden Media to work on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Instead, the film was directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui while Adamson served as executive producer. The script of the film was written by J. David Stem and Joe Stillman. The third film was financially successful, taking in more than $795 million worldwide with a budget of no more than $160 million, but received mixed reviews from critics.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Adamson achieved commercial success and worldwide attention with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which he co-produced, co-wrote and directed. The film is based on the book of the same name by C.S. Lewis, and won various awards, gained critical praise and was a box office success, becoming the third highest-grossing film worldwide of 2005 according to Box Office Mojo. The film opened in the US and Canada with totals of higher than $65 million and the film ended up with a worldwide gross of $744,783,957 with a budget of $180 million according to Box Office Mojo.[6]

He returned as director to the next Narnia film: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian which had a worldwide release in May 2008 and grossed over $419 million at the box office. Adamson returned as producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader released in Australia on 9 December 2010, and in the United States and UK on 10 December the same year. At the moment though, 20th Century Fox and Walden Media still hold the rights to the series, and they currently retain the option to make The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair in the future. However, 20th Century Fox and Walden Media decided to produce The Magician's Nephew as the next Narnia film instead of The Silver Chair. But, in October 2011, Douglas Gresham confirmed that Walden Media's contract with the C. S. Lewis estate had expired, and any production of a future film was on hold indefinitely.

Music

Experimental hip hop group Death Grips worked with Adamson on their 2018 album Year of the Snitch.[7] He appears on the track "Dilemma," delivering a spoken word introduction to the song.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2001	Shrek	Yes	No	No
2004	Shrek 2	Yes	Yes	No
2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Yes	Yes	Executive
2007	Shrek the Third	No	Story	Executive
2008	Ballast	No	No	Executive
	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	Shrek Forever After	No	No	Executive
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	No	No	Yes
2011	Puss In Boots	No	No	Executive
2012	Mr. Pip	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away	Yes	Yes	Yes

Other credits

Year	Title	Role
1992	Toys	Technical director
1993	Heart and Souls	Animation supervisor
1994	Angels in the Outfield	Visual effects supervisor
1995	Batman Forever
1996	The Frighteners	Digital effects supervisor
	A Time to Kill	Visual effects supervisor
1997	Batman & Robin
2000	Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes	Grip
2001	Shrek	Voice of Duloc Mascot, Songwriter: Merry Men
	Pâté	Grip; short film
2004	Shrek 2	Voice of Captain of the Guards, Songwriter: Fairy Godmother's Song
2007	Shrek the Third	Additional screenplay material
2012	Mirror Mirror	Very special thanks
2014	The Dark Horse	Special thanks
2020	Prop Culture	Himself, Episode: "The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe"

Accolades

Adamson has directed films which have received several accolades. Shrek won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film. Shrek 2 won the People's Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Comedy, Favorite Sequel, and Favorite Animated Movie. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Family Film, and the Saturn Awards for Best Make-up and Best Special Effects.

References

External links

• Andrew Adamson at IMDb

На других языках

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[es] Andrew Adamson

Andrew Ralph Adamson (1 de diciembre de 1966, Auckland) es un director de cine neozelandés formado principalmente en Los Ángeles, California, donde realizó películas de animación como las dos primera entregas Shrek, por las cuales recibió nominaciones a los premios Óscar. Fue director, productor ejecutivo y guionista en The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, rodada en Nueva Zelanda principalmente, en los alrededores de Auckland y en la Isla Sur donde fue filmada también la trilogía cinematográfica de El Señor de los Anillos de Peter Jackson. También trabajó en Batman Forever y Batman y Robin como supervisor de los efectos visuales.

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[ru] Адамсон, Эндрю

Э́ндрю Ральф А́дамсон (англ. Andrew Ralph Adamson; род. 1 декабря 1966, Окленд (Новая Зеландия)) — новозеландский кинорежиссёр и продюсер.

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