Adam Elliot

The Profile

Australian stop-motion animator and director, creator of Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max.

Harvie Krumpet won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2003. Mary and Max opened the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Mary and Max is a stop-motion claymation feature about an unlikely correspondence between an Australian girl and an obese, troubled New Yorker. The review praises voice performances (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette) and highlights themes of loneliness, mental illness and time passing. The reviewer laments limited distribution despite festival acclaim.