New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter

Andrew Adamson

Andrew Ralph Adamson is a New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He is best known for directing the DreamWorks animated film Shrek (2001), which is based on the children's picture book of the same name by American author William Steig and won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Awards ceremony, and directing and co-writing Shrek 2 (2004), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He also directed and co-wrote the first two live-action film adaptations of C. S.

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1966

December 1

Died

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1966 Born

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800 A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
1420 Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
1577 Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1640 End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.

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The world in 1966

When Andrew arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Alicia Markova 1910–2004 English ballerina and choreographer (died 2004) Anna Komnene 1083– Byzantine physician and scholar (died 1153) DeSean Jackson 1986– American football player Jo Walton 1964– Welsh-Canadian author and poet Keith Michell 1926–2015 Australian actor (died 2015) Louis VI 1081–1137 king of France (born 1081) Richard Carrier 1969– American author and blogger Stansfield Turner 1923– American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (died 2018)

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Also born in 1966

Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Danny Manning 1966– American basketball player and coach

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