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| Peter Jackson Born: 31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand Birth Name: Peter Jackson Salary • King Kong (2005): $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross (to be shared with co-writer/producer Fran Walsh & co-writer Philippa Boyens) • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): $10,000,000 + gross points (this salary is for all 3 films) Companies • WingNut Films Representation • International Creative Management • Nelson Felker Levine and Dern (legal) Academy Awards, USA 2004 • Won, Oscar Best Director for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) • Won, Oscar Best Picture for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Shared With: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh • Won, Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Shared With: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens 2003 • Nominated, Oscar Best Picture for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Shared With: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh 2002 • Nominated, Oscar Best Director for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) • Nominated, Oscar Best Picture for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Shared With: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh • Nominated, Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Shared With: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens 1995 • Nominated, Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Heavenly Creatures (1994) Shared With: Fran Walsh Another 73 wins & 58 nominations King Kong - Producer, Director, Writer (screenplay), Gunner 2005 The Lost Spider Pit Sequence (video short) - Director 2005 Hostel - Very Special Thanks 2005 The World's Fastest Indian - Thanks 2005 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Producer, Director, Executive Soundtrack Producer (uncredited), Writer (screenplay), Mercenary On Boat (uncredited) 2003 The Long and Short of It (short) - Executive Producer, Bus Driver 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Producer, Director, Writer (screenplay), Rohirrim Warrior (uncredited) 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Producer, Director, Writer (screenplay), Albert Dreary (uncredited) 2001 Contact - Additional Visual Effects 1997 The Frighteners - Producer, Director, Writer (written by), Man with Piercings 1996 Heavenly Creatures - Co-producer, Director, Writer, Bum outside theater 1994 Jack Brown Genius - Producer, Writer, Second Unit Director 1994 Dead Alive - Director, Stop Motion Animator, Writer, Undertaker's Assistant, Miniatures 1992 Valley of the Stereos (short) - Co-producer 1992 The Lounge Bar (short) - Special Effects 1989 Just the Feebles - Producer, Director, Camera Operator, Puppet Maker, Writer 1989 Bad Taste - Producer, Director, Writer, Derek/Robert, Special Effects, Editor, Makeup Effects, Cinematographer The Valley (short) - Director, Actor, Special Effects, Editor, Makeup Designer, Costume Peter Jackson is a film writer, director and producer from New Zealand. He was first known for his "splatstick" horror comedies, and came to prominence for his movie Heavenly Creatures, for which he received Oscar nominations. Jackson now is best-known as the director of the epic film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is married to Fran Walsh, with whom he has two children. Jackson started his career as a fanatical hobbyist, creating small movies with simple technical means and the help of a couple of friends. When one of his projects, the horror comedy Bad Taste, over a period of four years grew from the originally planned half-hour to a 90 minutes feature film, Jackson and his crew took the end result to the film festival in Cannes, where it received critical acclaim and was sold to twelve countries. This allowed him to start a professional career as a film director. Unlike other New Zealand film directors, Jackson has remained in New Zealand to make films, preferring to have Hollywood come to him, rather than going to Hollywood to make his films. In the process he has created or acquired a number of local businesses in order to support film production in New Zealand. He was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to a number of Hollywood films by use of telecommunications and satellite links to transmit raw images and the enhanced results across the Pacific Ocean, making good use of time differences between New Zealand and North America. Although appearing casual and relaxed, inevitably dressing in his trademark baggy shorts without shoes, Jackson is a perfectionist with his film projects. He demands countless takes of every scene, pushes his special effects crew to make their work seamless and invisible, and insists in authenticity in miniatures even on the sides that are never shown in a film. On the other hand, many of his most beautiful scenes result from purely serendipitous shots taken while flying from one location to another. Despite this perfectionism, he is well-known for the fact that he needs significantly less budget than his peers to achieve spectacular results. Peter Jackson has been promised a reported US$20 million fee for his next film, a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong. As of 2004, that made him the highest-paid motion picture director in history. There has been a good deal of speculation as to whether he might direct The Hobbit, predecessor to The Lord of the Rings. His responses to date seem to indicate that he is interested, if the studios can work out the rights. Any such production would need to include scenes set in Bag End and Rivendell and cast younger versions of Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Elrond and Gollum, and audiences might find it hard to accept them if they looked too different from the versions in Jackson's trilogy. (Although the immortal Gandalf and Elrond wouldn't look noticably different.) |
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