Peter Jackson
✓ Source-basedfallingNew Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (born 1961)
in New ZealandHe turned a three-volume fantasy saga into the biggest gamble in studio history, shot it all at once in New Zealand, and walked away with eleven Oscars for the final film. Before that: splatter comedies with puppets and gore. After: a $6.5 billion career that made him the fifth-highest-grossing director alive.
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Photos 4
In their own words 7
Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with
After receiving the Best Picture Oscar for "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" at the 76th Academy Awards
I don't take stuff seriously. I saw 'Hellraiser 3' the other day at Cannes; it's OK, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything.
Trash City Interview (1992)
And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school.
Darkhorizons interview (27 March 2006)
Filmography 40
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
District 9
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
King Kong
Hot Fuzz
The Adventures of Tintin
Mortal Engines
The Lovely Bones
Braindead
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The Frighteners
Heavenly Creatures
Bad Taste
They Shall Not Grow Old
Meet the Feebles
West of Memphis
Forgotten Silver
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Good Taste Made Bad Taste
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
The Long and Short of It
The Sci-Fi Boys
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Quest for the Ring
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
The Making of 'The Frighteners'193 credits on file
Television 15
The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Entourage
The Colbert Report
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Blue Heelers
The Oscars
The Beatles: Get Back
The Muppets Mayhem
Click
Kulturplatz
Reunited Apart
Icons
Last Chance to See
The Beatles AnthologyAwards 36
In their orbit 3
Nearby in directors 6
About this person
Peter Jackson started in 1987 with Bad Taste, a homemade horror-comedy he shot on weekends, followed by Meet the Feebles and the zombie-splatter Braindead. Heavenly Creatures in 1994, a drama about two girls who commit murder, earned him an Oscar nomination for screenplay and opened the door to Hollywood. He spent the next decade building Weta Workshop and Weta Digital in Wellington, the effects houses that would eventually render Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, shot back-to-back from 1999 to 2000 and released 2001 to 2003, became a cultural landmark - The Return of the King won all eleven Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Hobbit trilogy followed a decade later, then King Kong, the World War I restoration They Shall Not Grow Old, and The Beatles: Get Back. He was knighted in 2010, given an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2026, and now holds an estimated net worth of $1.9 billion.
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