Ted Elliott Biography

Fast Facts

• He, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S․H․ Schulman won Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production at the 2001 Annie Awards for "Shrek․"
• Served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America from 2004 to 2006
• He and other writers won an award for best adapted screenplay at the 2002 BAFTA Film Awards for "Shrek․"
• Early in his career, he spell-checked movie reviews for Roger Ebert's News America Syndicate
• Quote: "A lot of times in this industry, the layers or the complexity that is possible in film storytelling abandoned or watered down․"
• Quote: "When you're writing a script, you're developing a theory of a movie․ When you're shooting a movie, it's more developed theory but it's still just a theory․"
• Teamed up with Terry Rossio to write a number of successful screenplays including those for "Aladdin," "Shrek" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series
• Stated that Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy of existentialism is explored in all three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies
• Co-founded a website about screenwriting with Terry Rossio called Wordplayer․com
• Was interviewed by Bill Warren for an article in "Starlog" called "Pulling the Strings․"