''Adam'' is a 1992 British 6-minute stop motion clay animated short film written, animated and directed by

Peter Lord Peter Lord CBE (born 1953) is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring pla ...

Aardman Animations Aardman Animations Limited (also known as Aardman Studios, simply Aardman or Aardman Animation and stylised as AARDMAN as of 2022) is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films made using stop-motion and clay an ...

. It was nominated for an

Academy Award for Best Animated Short The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...

and the equivalent award at BAFTA in 1992, and won two awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1993. It is based on the beginning of the

Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning") ...

. It was distributed by

Premise

The film is a "spoof of the creation of life".

Adam Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

is a man who is created by the Hand of God and is put on this lonely planet. He does silly acts and does all sorts of strange things. When God realises that Adam is lonely, he makes Adam a friend. Adam, expecting it to be

Eve Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...

, gets himself ready as if for a date only to find out his new friend is a penguin.

Cast

*Nick Upton as

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Availability

The film was released on DVD in 2000 as part of a ''

Creature Comforts ''Creature Comforts'' is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about th ...

'' collection alongside ''

Wat's Pig ''Wat’s Pig'' is a 1996 British stop motion animated short film created by Aardman Animations and written and directed by Peter Lord. It is a tale of two princes who are split as babies only to reunite as adults during a war. It is told almost ...

'' (nominated for the same category at the 1996 Academy Awards) and ''

Not Without My Handbag ''Not Without My Handbag'' is a 1993 British stop-motion animated comedy horror short film created by animator Boris Kossmehl at Aardman Animations. The film is about a deceased aunt who forgets to take a proper handbag on her journey to Hell. ...

''.

Preservation

''Adam'' was preserved by the

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in 2013.

Awards and nominations

This is a list of awards and nominations of Adam: , - , 1992 , Christopher Moll and Peter Lord ,

BAFTA Film Award The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

for Short Animation , , - , 1992 , Peter Lord (director) , Chicago International Film Festival Silver Plaque for Best Short Film , , - , 1993 , Peter Lord ,

Annecy International Animated Film Festival The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (french: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of J ...

Audience Award , , - , 1993 , Peter Lord ,

Special Distinction for Humour , , - , 1993 , Peter Lord , Academy Award for Best Short Film, Animated , , -

References

External links

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