14 Facts About Adam Elliot

Adam Benjamin Elliot is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne.

Adam Benjamin Elliot was born in Berwick, Victoria, and raised in the Australian outback on a prawn farm by his father, Noel, a retired acrobatic clown, and his mother Valerie, a hairdresser; he has three siblings, Samantha, Luke and Joshua.

Adam Elliot attended the Pinewood Primary State School in the suburb of Mount Waverley, and then Haileybury College, Keysborough.

Adam Elliot had an early ambition to be a veterinarian but did not obtain the necessary grades to enter university.

In extra-curricular activities Adam Elliot was a member of the school's Highland Pipe Band.

In collaboration with the Australian Film Commission, Screen Australia, Film Victoria, and the Special Broadcasting Service, Adam Elliot made four more short films: Cousin, Brother, Harvie Krumpet, Ernie Biscuit and a feature, Mary and Max.

Adam Elliot is gay and thanked his boyfriend, who he was still involved with as of 2016, in his acceptance speech upon winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Short for Harvie Krumpet, becoming the first LGBT+ winner in that category.

Adam Elliot is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and in 1999 was awarded The Young Achiever of the Year for Victoria.

In several interviews Adam Elliot has stated that it is his most factual and autobiographical film and that the Brother is in fact himself.

Adam Elliot made it in a friend's spare bedroom above falafel shop in the bohemian inner city suburb of Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Adam Elliot set strict rules for himself: the film should be made in a completely analog fashion using a limited amount of tools and equipment.

Adam Elliot's most current clayography short, Ernie Biscuit, is a 20-minute black-and-white short animated stop motion film exploring the life of a deaf Parisian taxidermist.

Adam Elliot is noted for his use of traditional "in-camera" techniques, which means every prop set and character is a "real" miniature handcrafted object.

The portmanteau term "clayography" was created by Adam Elliot, who struggled with ways of describing his animation technique and so created this word to express his artistic style.