 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.

FilmYear Total World Wide Gross Production Companies FinanciersScript Writes Shrek2001$484,409,218DreamWorks Jeffrey Katzenberg Aron Warner John H. Williams Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Joe Stillman Roger S. H. Schulman Shrek 22004$919,838,758 DreamWorks Animation Aron Warner John H. Williams David Lipman Andrew Adamson Joe Stillman J. David Stem David N. Weiss The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 $744,783,957 Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures Mark Johnson Phillip Steuer Andrew Adamson Ann Peacock Christopher Markus Stephen 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 Adamson Christopher Markus Stephen McFeely Mister Pip2012 Agio Capital Deer Path Productions Leslie Urdang Dean Vanech Andrew Adamson Robin Scholes Andrew Adamson Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away 2012

 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.

 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

 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.

 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.