Home › Entities › animated_film › Mary and Max

Mary and Max

2009 clay animation film directed by Adam Elliot
Movie animated_film Q1128756
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Mary and Max is an animated film[1]. It draws 5,156 Wikipedia views per month (animated film category, ranking #302 of 1,376).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film[3], Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film[4]
  • Director: Adam Elliot[5]
  • Screenwriter: Adam Elliot[6]
  • Composer: Dale Cornelius[7]
  • Genre: adult animation[8], comedy drama[9]
  • Producer: Melanie Coombs[10]
  • Director of photography: Gerald Thompson[11]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[12], Yiddish[13]
  • Commons category: Mary and Max[14]
  • Language of work or name: English[15], Yiddish[16]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[17]
  • Review score: 8.1/10[18], 96%[19]
  • Color: color[20], black-and-white[21]
  • Country of origin: Australia[22]
  • Publication date: January 15, 2009[23], September 30, 2010[24], August 26, 2010[25], April 9, 2009[26]
  • Voice actor: Bethany Whitmore[27], Toni Collette[28], Philip Seymour Hoffman[29], Eric Bana[30], Barry Humphries[31], Christopher Massey[32], John Flaus[33], Molly Meldrum[34], Renée Geyer[35]
  • Distributed by: Icon Productions[36], Netflix[37]
  • Narrative location: New York City[38], Mount Waverley[39]
  • Filming location: Australia[40]
  • Main subject: autism[41], coping[42], human bonding[43], pen pal[44], friendship[45], loneliness[46], social exclusion[47], alcoholism[48], mental health[49], rurality[50], urbanity[51], intergenerationality[52], Interculturality[53]
  • Film editor: Bill Murphy[54]
  • Nominated for: AFI Members' Choice Award[55], AACTA Award for Best Production Design[56], AACTA Award for Best Film[57], AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay[58]
  • Title: Mary and Max[59]
  • FSK film rating: FSK 12[60]
  • Duration: 90 minutes[61]

Why It Matters

Mary and Max has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[62] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[63]

FAQs

What awards did Mary and Max receive?

Honors received include Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film[3] and Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film[4].

Related Entities

Australia Barry Humphries Eric Bana Netflix New York City Philip Seymour Hoffman Toni Collette

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Lexicon of international films. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Lexicon of international films. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . Mary and Max. wikidata.org.
  52. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  53. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  54. [56] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  55. [57] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  56. [58] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  57. [59] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  58. [60] ↑ . fsk.de. fsk.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  59. [61] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [62] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [63] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Mary and Max. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-and-max
MLA “Mary and Max.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-and-max.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_mary-and-max_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Mary and Max}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-and-max}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Mary and Max — https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-and-max (retrieved 2026-10-14)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-and-max · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 55837
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Filmová databáze film id: 55837, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269266|batch #269266]]"
  2. 7w ago · UndefinedRachel · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → —
    Bbfc rating → 12A certificate
    Set in period → 1980s, 1970s, 1990s
    Cnc film rating (france) → no age restriction
    + 44 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48928|batch #48928]]: BBFC release ID"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.