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Alan Lee, along with Grant Major and Dan Hennah, won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Lee served as one of the lead concept artists on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2000 to 2003.
Alan Lee is best known for his illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novels, including the 1992 centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings and a 1999 edition of The Hobbit. He also served as lead concept artist on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.
Alan Lee made two cameo appearances in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. In The Fellowship of the Ring he appears as one of the nine kings of men who became the Nazgul, and in The Two Towers he appears as a Rohan soldier in the armoury.
Alan Lee won the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the Trojan War story published by Oxford in 1993. The medal recognises the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
Alan Lee studied at the Ealing School of Art in England. He was born in Middlesex on the 20th of August 1947.
Jackson sent two of his previous films, Forgotten Silver and Heavenly Creatures, by courier to Lee's home in the south of England, along with a personal note from himself and Fran Walsh. That note was enough to convince the reclusive Lee to join the project.