About Adam

Adam Elliot is an Oscar winning and two-time Oscar nominated animation auteur. Based in Melbourne Australia, his films have a cult following and are what he calls, Clayographies, clay animated biographies based on the bittersweet lives of his family and friends. He has created seven films so far; Memoir of a Snail, Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet, Ernie Biscuit, Brother, Cousin and Uncle. They have been voiced by some of the world’s leading actors, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Snook, Geoffrey Rush, Jacki Weaver, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Toni Collette, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Nick Cave. Viewed by millions of people around the world his works have participated in over a thousand film festivals and won over 130 awards, including an Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet, and an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe nomination for Memoir of a Snail. They have won eight AFI AACTA Awards from twenty nominations. His first feature film, Mary and Max, had its world premiere on the Opening Night of Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, and in 2010 it was included in IMDB’s Top 250 Films of all time. The film has been developed into a musical and several stage productions. His second feature, Memoir of a Snail, was released in 2024 and has become a global sensation and his most successful film. To date it has won over 30 awards from 70 nominations. Adam has had multiple retrospectives of his films and exhibitions of his artwork in Paris, New York, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Spain and Singapore. In 1999 he was the Young Achiever of the Year for Victoria and is a voting member for the Academy Awards.