"Principal photography of The Lord of the Rings film series Principal photography for ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy was conducted concurrently in New Zealand for 438 days from October 11, 1999 through to December 22, 2000. Pick-up shoots were conducted annually from 2001 to 2003. The trilogy was shot at over 150 different locations, with seven different units shooting, as well as soundstages around Wellington and Queenstown. Peter Jackson directed the whole production, while other unit directors included Alun Bollinger, John Mahaffie, Geoff Murphy, Fran Walsh, Barrie Osborne, and Rick Porras. Jackson monitored these units with live satellite"
"awards ceremony on February 29, 2004. With eleven awards, ""The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic"" as the most awarded films in Oscar history. Moreover, its clean sweep of its eleven nominations surpassed ""Gigi"" and ""The Last Emperor""'s nine awards for the largest sweep for a single film in Oscar history. The film was also the tenth film to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Best Director nominee Sofia Coppola became the first American woman and third woman overall to be nominated in that category. By virtue of her father, Francis"
"Peter O'Toole and Eva Longoria. ""Cristiada"" was released in 2012. Dean Wright Dean Wright (born May 15, 1962) is a film director and visual effects supervisor, best known for his work on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy and """". Michigan-born Wright enrolled at the University of Arizona film school to pursue a career as a filmmaker. Relocating to Los Angeles in 1989, he landed work with one of the industry's most prominent director's, James Cameron, on the groundbreaking project """". The film's success propelled Wright into larger production rolls in a variety of capacities alongside acclaimed filmmakers. He"
"categories; all three ""Lord of the Rings"" pictures as well as ""King Kong"" won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in their respective years. In total Jackson's directed efforts have been the most awarded films at three separate Academy Award ceremonies, the 74th, 76th and 78th. Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–03) and the ""Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the"
"Andy Serkis Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and film director. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy (2001–2003) and """" (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the ""Planet of the Apes"" reboot series (2011–17), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's ""The Adventures of Tintin"" (2011), and Supreme Leader Snoke in the first two ""Star Wars"" sequel trilogy films, """" (2015) and """" (2017)."
"Ngila Dickson Ngila Dickson, ONZM (born 1958) is a costume designer from New Zealand. Her most notable work is in """" and """", both of which were filmed in New Zealand, as well as her years of work on """". She and Richard Taylor won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the ""Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"" (2004). Other Academy Award nominations were for ""Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"" (2002) and ""The Last Samurai"" (2004). She received British Film and Television Award nominations for ""Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship"
"Mark Ordesky Mark Lowell Ordesky (born April 22, 1963) is an American film producer, television producer and studio executive. He is best known for executive producing the Oscar winning ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. During 20 years at New Line Cinema (and prior to that Republic Pictures), Ordesky acquired or executive produced over 60 films, including New Line's first Best Picture Oscar nominee (""Shine""), its first major category Oscar winner (Geoffrey Rush, Academy Award for Best Actor, ""Shine""), and its first Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (Lars von Trier's ""Dancer In The Dark""). While at New"
"Gore Verbinski Gregor ""Gore"" Verbinski (born March 16, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician. He is best known for directing the first three films of the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film saga, ""The Ring"", and ""Rango"". Verbinski is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His most recent film, ""A Cure for Wellness"", was released in 2017. Verbinski won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2012 for his animated action-comedy western ""Rango"". His films have"
"Society and the American Society of Cinematographers. Lesnie died of a heart attack in his Sydney home on 27 April 2015. Andrew Lesnie Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer. He was best known as the cinematographer for ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–2003) and its prequel ""The Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–2014), both directed by New Zealand director Peter Jackson. He received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on """" in 2002. Lesnie was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of Shirley (Lithgow) and Allan Lesnie, who worked for"
"Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–03) and the ""Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other films include the critically lauded drama ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), the mockumentary film ""Forgotten Silver"" (1995), the horror comedy ""The Frighteners"" (1996), the epic monster remake film ""King Kong"" (2005), the supernatural drama film ""The Lovely Bones"" (2009), and the"
"The Ring (2002 film) The Ring (stylized as the ring) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film ""Ring"" based on the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki. ""The Ring"" was released theatrically on October 18, 2002, and received mostly positive reviews. Many critics praised direction, screenplay, Watts's performance, and reliance on dread and visuals over gore, but criticized the lack of character development. The film grossed over $249 million worldwide on a $48"
"Philippa Boyens Philippa Boyens, MNZM, is a New Zealand screenwriter and producer who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's films ""The Lord of the Rings"" series, ""King Kong"", ""The Lovely Bones"", and the three-part film ""The Hobbit"", all with Jackson and Fran Walsh. She, Jackson, and Walsh won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for """" at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004. She was also co-producer in every one of Jackson's films since ""King Kong"", and in ""District 9"". Prior to screenwriting, Boyens worked in theater as a playwright, teacher, producer and editor. She also spent time as"
"Lord of the Rings"" film series (2001–2003) directed by Peter Jackson, after Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart both turned down the role. The make-up and costumes were based on designs by John Howe and Alan Lee. According to Jackson, McKellen based his performance as Gandalf on Tolkien himself:We listened to audio recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from ""Lord of the Rings"". We watched some BBC interviews with him — there's a few interviews with Tolkien — and Ian based his performance on an impersonation of Tolkien. He's literally basing Gandalf on Tolkien. He sounds the same, he uses the speech"
"Andrew Lesnie Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer. He was best known as the cinematographer for ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–2003) and its prequel ""The Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–2014), both directed by New Zealand director Peter Jackson. He received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on """" in 2002. Lesnie was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of Shirley (Lithgow) and Allan Lesnie, who worked for the family's company, butcher suppliers Harry Lesnie Pty Ltd. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School. Andrew was well liked and"
"""Cracks In The Rock"" (director, writer, producer), ""The Dark Tower"" (2017), George Marshall Ruge George Marshall Ruge is an American film director, writer, second unit director, stunt coordinator, and actor. Ruge is known for his work as director, second unit director, and stunt coordinator on such film projects as the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" four-film franchise, and as stunt coordinator on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. Ruge is featured in the ""Daily Variety"" (2011) annual Below The Line Impact Report: The Top 50 as second unit director and was the recipient of the American Choreography Award (2004) for"
"fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"", was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won all the categories for which it was nominated. The film is tied for largest number of awards won with ""Ben-Hur"" (1959) and ""Titanic"" (1997). ""The Passion of the Christ"", a 2004 American film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ, was highly controversial and received mixed reviews; however, it was a major commercial hit, grossing in excess of $600 million during its theatrical release, becoming"
"the annual awards season, earning many nominations and winning several awards; ""The Frighteners"" being his only fictional directed effort since 1994 not to be nominated for an Academy Award. The ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy is one of the most successful trilogies of all time in terms of awards, winning more Academy Awards than the Francis Ford Coppola directed ""Godfather Trilogy"", with 2003's ""The Return of the King"" winning in all 11 categories for which it was nominated including Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay. Jackson's films have fared extremely well in the technical categories as well as the major"
"a series and win the award. Along with ""Titanic"" and ""Ben-Hur"", ""The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"" holds the record for Academy Awards won by a single film and is the only one of the three films to win every category for which it was nominated. In 1957, Tolkien received a film proposal from Forrest J. Ackerman, Morton Grady Zimmerman, and Al Brodax. The proposed film, a mix of animation, miniature work, and live action, was to be three hours long with two intermissions. Tolkien was enthusiastic about the film's concept art, described as akin to"
"3"", ""Miss Undercover 2"", ""V-for Vendetta"", ""Aviator"", ""Alexander"", ""Ocean's Twelve"", ""Collateral"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""Lord of the Rings – Return of the King"", ""Troy"", ""Kill Bill 2"", ... etc. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone, Marylin Manson, Will Smith, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, ... etc. ""CeBIT"", ""AIDA"", ""GC – Games Convention"", ""Stanford Eagle"", ""Leaders Club Germany Award"", ""Minnie Driver CD Presentation"", ""Priscilla Presley CD Presentation"", ""The Sound"
"MISCELLANEOUS CREW SECOND UNIT DIRECTING Mark Ordesky Mark Lowell Ordesky (born April 22, 1963) is an American film producer, television producer and studio executive. He is best known for executive producing the Oscar winning ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. During 20 years at New Line Cinema (and prior to that Republic Pictures), Ordesky acquired or executive produced over 60 films, including New Line's first Best Picture Oscar nominee (""Shine""), its first major category Oscar winner (Geoffrey Rush, Academy Award for Best Actor, ""Shine""), and its first Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (Lars von Trier's ""Dancer In"
"George Marshall Ruge George Marshall Ruge is an American film director, writer, second unit director, stunt coordinator, and actor. Ruge is known for his work as director, second unit director, and stunt coordinator on such film projects as the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" four-film franchise, and as stunt coordinator on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. Ruge is featured in the ""Daily Variety"" (2011) annual Below The Line Impact Report: The Top 50 as second unit director and was the recipient of the American Choreography Award (2004) for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography in Film: """". ""Infinity Dream"" (writer, director),"
"also became the most-nominated in the Academy's history, surpassing the ""Godfather"" series' 28 (with the release of ""The Hobbit"", the series currently has 36 nominations total). Its 11 Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards tied it for most awards won for one film with ""Titanic"" six years earlier and the 1959 version of ""Ben-Hur."" It also broke the previous ""sweep"" record, beating ""Gigi"" and ""The Last Emperor"" (which each took 9 out of 9). ""The Return of the King"" also made movie history as the highest-grossing film opening on a Wednesday and was the second film after ""Titanic"" to earn"
"of ""Cats""; the original production of ""Sunset Boulevard"", directed by Trevor Nunn, in Germany, and produced the new production of ""Sunset Boulevard"", directed by Robert Carsen and starring Faith Brown. Wallace produced the UK tour of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", directed by Gale Edwards, and won an International Emmy Award in 2001 as Executive Producer of the film based on that production. Wallace also produced the Broadway production of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", (Foxwoods Theatre), directed by Gale Edwards, that received a 2000 Tony Award Nomination for Best Musical Revival. Wallace, with Saul Zaentz, produced ""The Lord of the Rings"" directed by"
"Dalmatians"", ""Mission to Mars"", ""Inspector Gadget"", Oscar nominated ""Mighty Joe Young"", ""Unbreakable"", ""The Sixth Sense"" and ""Bicentennial Man"". In 2002, Wright became visual effects producer for the final two chapters in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. In undertaking this challenge he teamed with Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Jim Rygiel. In 2003 """" was recognized with eight Visual Effects Society awards, as well as both the BAFTA and the Academy Award for Visual Effects. """" won in all of the eleven Oscar categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Director, and Visual Effects. Wright picked up the top"
"Rings (2017 film) Rings (known in Japan as The Ring: Rebirth) is a 2017 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez, written by David Loucka, Jacob Aaron Estes and Akiva Goldsman and starring Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D'Onofrio. It is the third installment in ""The Ring"" (franchise), following the previous installments ""The Ring"" (2002) and ""The Ring Two"" (2005), and is based on elements of ""Spiral"" by Kôji Suzuki. Principal photography began on March 23, 2015, in Atlanta. The film was released in the United States on February 3,"
"part-owner Howard Berger for four years before heading out on her own in 2000. She also worked on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy, ""The Green Mile"", and ""Superman Returns"". In 2004, she was the lead prosthetic artist for """", leading a team of 42 makeup and prosthetic experts. For this movie, she and Howard Berger won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Makeup. In 2013, she, Peter Swords King, and Rick Findlater, were nominated for another Academy Award for Makeup, for """". She appeared on the first episode of the NBC show ""Identity"" with the identity of ""Academy"
"Dean Wright Dean Wright (born May 15, 1962) is a film director and visual effects supervisor, best known for his work on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy and """". Michigan-born Wright enrolled at the University of Arizona film school to pursue a career as a filmmaker. Relocating to Los Angeles in 1989, he landed work with one of the industry's most prominent director's, James Cameron, on the groundbreaking project """". The film's success propelled Wright into larger production rolls in a variety of capacities alongside acclaimed filmmakers. He became the VFX production manager for Cameron's own visual effect's"
"by Shekhar Kapur and starring Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson, and Wes Bentley. In 2004, he produced “The Great Raid,” an epic World War II, true-life action drama about the liberation of American Survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Japanese Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines in 1945. The film was directed by John Dahl (“The Last Seduction,” “Rounders”), and stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, and Joe Fiennes for Miramax films. In addition, he was a Production Consultant for Miramax on “Lord of the Rings,” (2000) and was instrumental in getting it greenlit, as well Production Consultant"
"Peter Jackson's ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, and received an Oscar for his work on """" in 2002. Since then, he filmed several other Jackson-directed films, including ""King Kong"" and ""The Lovely Bones"", and also filmed ""The Hobbit"" films directed by Jackson. Lesnie used motion picture camera company Arri's Arriflex 435, Arriflex 535, and ArriCam Studio 35mm film cameras for the trilogy. He used Carl Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses and Kodak's 5279 (tungsten-balanced) film stock to photograph the films. Lesnie planned far ahead into the production with Peter Jackson with previsualisation programs to help establish frame sizes and angles, as"
"""B-"" on an A+ to F scale. A sequel, ""The Ring Two"", was released in 2005. A short film titled ""Rings"" was also released in 2005, and is set between ""The Ring"" and ""The Ring Two"". Another sequel, also titled ""Rings"", was released in 2017. The Ring (2002 film) The Ring (stylized as the ring) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film ""Ring"" based on the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki. ""The"
"the 1990s and 2000s are John Howe, Alan Lee, and Ted Nasmith — Alan Lee for illustrated editions of ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"", Ted Nasmith for illustrated editions of ""The Silmarillion"", and John Howe for the cover artwork to several Tolkien publications. Howe and Lee were also involved in the creation of Peter Jackson's film trilogy as concept artists — Nasmith was also invited to take part in the films, but was forced to reluctantly decline due to a personal crisis at the time. In 2004, Lee won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for"
"as the wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of ""The Lord of the Rings"" (consisting of """" (2001), """" (2002), and """" (2003) ). He received honors from the Screen Actors Guild for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in ""The Fellowship of the Ring"" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role. He provided the voice of Gandalf for several video game adaptations of the ""Lord of the Rings"" films, then reprised the role on screen in Jackson's film adaptation of ""The Hobbit"", which was released in"
"against him and when she was finally arrested, she continued the harassment in jail until the day she died of a drug overdose in September 2012. Neil has directed many well-known actors in film and television: Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dracula) William Kircher (The Hobbit) Walter Koenig (Star Trek) Doug Jones (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) Barry Corbin (No Country for Old Men) Christopher Masterson (Malcolm in the Middle, My Best Friend's Wedding) Torri Higginson (English Patient, Stargate) James Kyson (Heroes) Tracey Birdsall (Rogue Warrior) Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena) Ellen Dubin (The Lexx) Christopher Judge (Stargate) Minai Noji (Memories"