Andrew Adamson

Andrew Adamson, NZOM, began his career at Auckland computer animation company The Mouse that Roared. After moving to the United States and working in visual effects, he co-directed Shrek, the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Adamson returned home to shoot the first two instalments of the Chronicles of Narnia, followed by a movie based on Lloyd Jones novel Mister Pip.

I think there’s an openness in New Zealand and a freedom, in the way I grew up anyway, that encouraged the openness of imagination. Andrew Adamson, in a 10 December 2005 Listener interview