born in new zealand, december 1st 1966 moved to papua new guinea 11 years later then back again 7...
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DIRECTORS STUDY
ANDREW ADAMSON
BIOGRAPHY
Born in New Zealand, December 1st 1966 Moved to Papua New Guinea 11 years later then back
again 7 years later. Then 6 years later he moved to San Francisco.
Adamson was going to be an architect until he missed enrolment because of a car accident.
He was recruited by Pacific Data Images where he was a technical director of Toys.
He was also the visual effects supervisor of Batman Forever, Time to Kill and Batman and Robin.
He then went on to direct Shrek in 2001, making $500 million in the Box Office. He then went on to make another Shrek movie and two Narnia films.
FILMOGRAPHY Film Year Total World Wide
Gross Production Companies
Financiers Script Writes
Shrek 2001 $484,409,218 DreamWorks Jeffrey KatzenbergAron WarnerJohn H. Williams
Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Joe Stillman Roger S. H. Schulman
Shrek 2 2004 $919,838,758 DreamWorks Animation
Aron WarnerJohn H. WilliamsDavid Lipman
Andrew AdamsonJoe StillmanJ. David StemDavid N. Weiss
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
$744,783,957 Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures
Mark JohnsonPhillip Steuer
Andrew AdamsonAnn PeacockChristopher MarkusStephen McFeely
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008 $419,651,413 Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures
Andrew Adamson Cary Granat Mark Johnson Perry Moore Douglas Gresham Philip Steuer
Andrew AdamsonChristopher MarkusStephen McFeely
Mister Pip 2012 Agio CapitalDeer Path Productions
Leslie UrdangDean VanechAndrew AdamsonRobin Scholes
Andrew Adamson
Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away
2012
FAVOURITE ACTORS/CAMERA MAN OR WOMAN/EDITOR: Editor: Sim Evan-Jones in at least three
of the films he has directed. Actors: Andrew does not have any
favourite actors that he uses in most of his films, although he does keep the same actors throughout the Narnia and Shrek films.
PREFERRED FILM STYLE, FILM THEMES Adamson tends to direct fairy tale like
films, such as Shrek and Narnia. Adamson tends to use diffused
sunlight in important scenes in his movies.
His movies often have some kind of adventure in them.
Diffused sunlight
CURRENT PROJECTS
Andrew is currently working on the Mister Pip. Filmed in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away movies, both due for release in 2012.
SIGNIFICANCE/IMPACT ON NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY:
Adamson shows New Zealand and the world that there is always hope no matter how bad things seem.
Adamson also breaks the stereotype that because you are living pits and because you are ugly you couldn’t possibly love or be loved, shown by Shrek.
All information is from IMDB and wikipedia.