Peter Jackson
☼ Born on 31 February 1961, in Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
Biography
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The Return of the King receiving his most impressive collection of awards. This included three Academy Awards® (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture), two Golden Globes (Best Director and Best Motion Picture-Drama), three BAFTAs (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film and Viewers' Choice), a Directors Guild Award, a Producers Guild Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award.
As a follow up to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in 2005, Jackson directed, wrote, and produced King Kong, for Universal Pictures. The film grossed over $500 million and won three Oscars®.
Jackson previously received widespread acclaim for his 1994 feature Heavenly Creatures, which received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Screenplay. Other film credits include The Frighteners, starring Michael J. Fox; the adult puppet feature Meet the Feebles; and Braindead, which won 16 international science fiction awards, including the Saturn. Jackson also co-directed the television documentary Forgotten Silver, which also hit the film festival circuit.
Jackson directed the Academy Award®-nominated The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of the acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold and produced the wor
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ldwide sci-fi hit District 9. He was a producer on Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn in 2011, with two more films set to come out in the future.
His most recent films include producer of 2018's action film Mortal Engines, based on a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive. Following Mortal Engines, he produced They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary on World War I with never-before-seen footage. BAFTA nominated the film for Best Documentary, and it won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing from the Motion Picture Sound Editors.
Jackson's next project is the music documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which he directed and produced, due to be released August, 2021.
Jackson works closely with partner Dame Fran Walsh, with whom he shares his writing and producing credits, as well as a family. Jackson has a special interest in WWI memorabilia and is the proud owner of several aircraft from that era.
In the role of director
The Beatles: Get Back (01/12/2021)
Peter Jackson restores the 1969 documentary footage of The Beatles recording their album “Let It Be” in The Beatles: Get Back. In January 1969, The Beatles began work on an album with the working title of “Get Back,” with the original plan being to write and perform 14 songs in front of an audience as […]
Mortal Engines (13/12/2018)
A vengeful assassin and a historian try to stop a war in Mortal Engines. It only took sixty minutes for humanity to be on the edge of extinction. In a world devastated by war, the remaining human population has been divided between those who live on mobile traction cities and those who choose to remain on […]
The Night of the Virgin (23/07/2017)
A young virgin gets more than he bargained for one New Year’s Eve in The Night of the Virgin. Nico (Javier Bódalo) was dragged to a New Year’s Eve party by friends and desperate to find a girl to take his virginity. Nico attracts the attention of Medea (Miriam MartÃn), who takes him home to her […]
Kong: Skull Island (12/03/2017)
A group of explorers travel to and island ruled by a giant ape in Kong: Skull Island. Bill Randa (John Goodman) is a government official, who is made in charge of an expedition to the uncharted skull island. The expedition is escorted by a platoon of soldiers fresh out of the Vietnam War, lead by Lieutenant […]
Blindspot 2016: Classic Horror: King Kong (31/05/2016)
There’s a slight change of plans with this month’s blindspot selection, with me opting to jump ahead and watch Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s King Kong, instead of my originally scheduled pick of The Mummy. It’s a bit of a stretch to lump King Kong in with my theme of classic horror, with the film […]
Nuts! (03/05/2016)
Animated reenactments are used to tell the mostly true story of an eccentric genius in Nuts! In 1917, Dr. John Romulus Brinkley discovered that he can cure impotence through a very unconventional method – the transplant of goat testicles. This begins a very eccentric and bizarre story, which sees Brinkley get in fights against the American Medical […]
Deathgasm – Toronto After Dark 2015 (23/10/2015)
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia Fest 2015 A heavy metal band accidentally summons a hoard of demons in the horror-comedy Deathgasm. Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) is a metalhead, who is forced to live with his ultra-religious uncle Albert (Colin Moy) and bully of a cousin David (Colin Moy). After befriending Zakk […]
Deathgasm (19/07/2015)
A heavy metal band accidentally summons a hoard of demons in the horror-comedy Deathgasm. Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) is a metalhead, who is forced to live with his ultra-religious uncle Albert (Colin Moy) and bully of a cousin David (Colin Moy). After befriending Zakk (James Blake), the only other metalhead in town, they form a band […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (21/12/2014)
It is time for the concluding chapter of Peter Jackson’s three part adaptation of The Hobbit. After the defeat of Smaug the Dragon, the company of thirteen dwarves, along with Bilbo (Martin Freeman), reclaim their mountain home of Erebor. However, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) is inflicted with “dragon sickness” and is driven mad inside the […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (15/12/2013)
Peter Jackson’s epic three part extended adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit continues with The Desolation of Smaug. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) continues his journey with the band of thirteen dwarves, lead by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), to reclaim the Kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch). Along the way, they […]
Blindspot: The Cult of 2013: Dead-Alive (17/10/2013)
I’m doing my blindspot post early this month, since I’m going to be quite busy with the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which begins tonight, and I wanted to ensure that I watch my film selection before the end of the month. To go with the spirit of the Halloween season, I’ve decide to go […]
West of Memphis (20/04/2013)
I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical when I first heard of the new West Memphis Three documentary West of Memphis. As interesting as this story is, I thought that the saga of these three men imprisoned for the murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas was more than covered in […]
Introducing Blindspot: The Cult of 2013 (21/01/2013)
I figured that for my second year doing the blindspot series, I would go for a theme. A few months ago, I purchased the book 101 Cult Movies You Should See Before You Die and I figured that I would choose every film I see this year for the blindspot series from that book. In […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (15/12/2012)
More than a decade after The Lord of the Rings first graced the screens, Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth for the first of three films based on, J.R.R. Tokien’s Lord of the Rings predecessor, The Hobbit. While the original source novel is a relatively brief children’s story, in comparison to the latter books, Peter […]
The Adventures of Tintin (28/12/2011)
Making a film version of The Adventures of Tintin was a bit of risky move for Steven Spielberg, since the popular Belgian comics are next to unknown in the United States. The opposite can be said here in Canada, where there was a popular animated series based on the books that aired in the 1990s. I have fond […]
The Lovely Bones (17/01/2010)
With this film, Peter Jackson leaves behind the huge epics he was involved with during the last decade and does a film that is probably closer in tone to his 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. The film is about a girl that continues watch her family (and her killer) and she is murdered. The most common […]
District 9 (15/08/2009)
This film, which is a expansion of director Neill Blomkamp’s 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, was essentially consolation by producer Peter Jackson for the Halo film (which Blomkamp was supposed to direct) falling through. I think a lot has been said about how this is supposed to reference apartheid in South Africa, so I […]