Andrew Ralph Adamson, MNZM (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter, based mainly in Los Angeles, California, USA, where he created the blockbuster animated films Shrek and Shrek 2, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He was the director, executive producer, and screenwriter of the film adaptation of C. S. Lewis's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Filming took place in New Zealand, mainly in and around Auckland, but also on the South Island, where much of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed. He also worked on the films Batman Forever and Batman & Robin as a visual effects supervisor.

He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

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