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Peter Jackson won three Academy Awards personally for The Return of the King in 2003: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won all eleven Academy Awards for which it was nominated, making it the first fantasy film to win Best Picture and only the second sequel to do so after The Godfather Part II.
Peter Jackson was born on the 31st of October 1961 in Wellington and grew up in the suburb of Pukerua Bay. He had no formal training in filmmaking and learned editing, visual effects, and make-up entirely through his own trial and error. He left school at 16 and worked as a photo-engraver at The Evening Post in Wellington for seven years, saving money to buy film equipment.
They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary directed by Peter Jackson about the experiences of ordinary British soldiers in the First World War. It was created using original footage from Imperial War Museums' archive, which was colourised, converted to 3D, and transformed with modern production techniques. It premiered on the 16th of October 2018 at the BFI London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC Two on the 11th of November 2018, the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice.
In 1987, Jackson established WingNut Films as his production company. In 1993, he co-founded Weta Workshop, which handles special and physical effects, and Weta Digital (now Weta FX), which focuses on digital visual effects, both based in Wellington. He also owns The Vintage Aviator, an aircraft restoration company based in Kilbirnie, Wellington.
The de-mixing technology developed for The Beatles: Get Back to isolate instruments and vocals from old recordings was later used to salvage audio from a 1977 demo recorded by John Lennon. This made it possible to release "Now and Then" on the 2nd of November 2023, described as the last Beatles song. Jackson personally directed the music video, incorporating restored archive footage to place all four Beatles on screen together.
Jackson's first feature was Bad Taste (1987), a splatter comedy that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. It was followed by the black comedy Meet the Feebles (1989) and the zombie comedy Braindead (1992). His breakthrough into mainstream recognition came with the critically acclaimed drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), which earned him and Fran Walsh a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.