Peter Jackson
Biography
Peter Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker best known for directing the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. Born in Wellington and raised in Pukerua Bay, he had no formal film training and learned editing and effects through trial and error. His early features included the low-budget horror comedy Bad Taste (1987) and Meet the Feebles (1989), a black comedy horror. With Heavenly Creatures, he and Fran Walsh earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and gained mainstream attention. He then directed the mockumentary Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners, and a 2005 remake of King Kong. For the final Lord of the Rings film, Jackson won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and his other honors include BAFTAs, a Golden Globe, Saturn Awards, and Primetime Emmys. He also directed the World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old and The Beatles: Get Back.
65years old
Turns 66 on October 31in 355 days
- Born Wellington
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Peter Robert Jackson (birth name)Also credited as Sir Peter Jackson
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 37 years1987 to 2024
Genres
- Comedy57%, 4 films
- Documentary57%, 4 films
- Horror14%, 1 film
- Music14%, 1 film
- Musical14%, 1 film
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First role
Jackson's first feature was Bad Taste, a splatter comedy that took years to make. Shooting happened on weekends because Jackson worked full-time, and the film was finished after Jim Booth of the New Zealand Film Commission backed it.
A role that slipped away
Universal Studios shelved Jackson's remake of King Kong, partly because Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla, two giant monster movies, had already gone into production. The studio feared the two higher budget movies would throw his aside.
A first
Peter Jackson's The Return of the King was the second sequel to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture, after The Godfather Part II, and the first fantasy film to do so.
Behind the camera
Jackson directed the "Now and Then" music video himself, combining new footage of McCartney and Starr with restored old footage, much as in Get Back, so all four Beatles appear on-screen. He was "very reluctant" when asked to direct, but McCartney, Starr and Apple sent him footage.
Peter Jackson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Meet the Feebles1989 Comedy, Music, Musicalas Audience Member in the Theater
IMDb rating 6.622K votes
Most often with
Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Peter Vere-Jones's page
Costa Botes's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Doug WrenMeet the Feebles (1989) and Bad Taste (1987)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 1994 to 2026, eight of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | |||
| 2004 | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| 2004 | Best Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| 2004 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| Golden Globes | |||
| 2003 | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| Awards | Won | ||
| BAFTA | |||
| 2004 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| 2002 | Best Direction | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 2026 | Honorary Palme d'Or | Honorary | |
| 2022 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Won | |
| 2014 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Won | |
| 1994 | Silver Lion | Won | |
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