Andrew Ralph Adamson MNZM (born 1 December 1966)[2] is a New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter and animator.

He also directed and co-wrote the first two live-action film adaptations of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia novels: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Prince Caspian (2008).

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.

The film featured the lead voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow.

[citation needed] 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.

[citation needed] 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.

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.

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.