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8Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his hugely successful ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' film trilogy, adapted from [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the book of the same name]]. The final movie of the trilogy, ''The Return of the King'', won 11 Academy Awards at the 2004 ceremony to honour films of the previous year, including Best Picture and Best Director. This made him only the fourth person to win Oscars for directing, producing and screenwriting in the same year (joining Creator/BillyWilder, Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, and Creator/JamesLBrooks; this group would be joined four years later by Creator/TheCoenBrothers). He later directed a {{prequel}} trilogy to his ''The Lord of the Rings'' magnum opus, ''Film/TheHobbit'', to great success again (if less critical acclaim).
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10Prior to his work on the trilogy, he already had a cult following for his [[SplatterHorror splatter]] [[BloodyHilarious comedies]][[note]]a "splatter comedy" is pretty much a slapstick comedy meets a gross-out dark comedy[[/note]]. In 1994, he received his first Oscar nomination for screenwriting for ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'', based on the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder, committed by two teenage girls in Christchurch, New Zealand. His first big budget movie was ''Film/TheFrighteners'', starring Creator/MichaelJFox. Unfortunately, the movie wasn't commercially successful. In 2005, he [[Film/KingKong2005 finally fulfilled his dream to remake]] the 1933 classic ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}''.
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12He became a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2010 and Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest honour, in 2012. This means he's officially styled as Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM.
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14He owns his own production company, Wingnut Films, and is a prime mover behind the studios Weta Workshop and Weta Digital, the special effects companies responsible for the practical and digital effects in ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', and ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' (as well as advancing their mediums in many ways, such as Digi's Massive system for vast digital crowds). He also financed the feature film version of ''Film/{{District 9}}'' after being impressed by the original short.
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16Jackson is known for his macabre sense of humor, his attention to detail, his dedication to the job and his general playful attitude. He is also a noted perfectionist, demanding numerous takes of almost every scene. His work often features multiple camera angles and shots, as well as zooming closeups on characters' faces. He is known for enthusiastically using computer enhancement technology and digital special effects. He also likes to have [[CreatorCameo cameos]] in his films, and others too; for example, he made an uncredited appearance in ''Film/HotFuzz'' as a knife-wielding Father Christmas.
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18His studio has also made a fully functional ''mermaid's tail'' prosthetic for [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Nadia Vessey]].
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20!!Some of his notable works include:
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23* ''Film/BadTaste'' (1987)
24* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' (1989)
25* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' (Released in the U.S. as ''Dead Alive'') (1992)
26* ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'' (1994)
27* ''Forgotten Silver'' (1995) (Co-directed with Costa Botes)
28* ''Film/TheFrighteners'' (1996)
29* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
30** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001)
31** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' (2002)
32** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' (2003)
33* ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' (2005)
34* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' (2009) (Produced, but not directed)
35* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'' (2009)
36* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn]]'' (2011) (Produced it, directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg)
37* ''Film/TheHobbit''
38** ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' (2012)
39** ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' (2013)
40** ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' (2014)
41* ''Film/TheyShallNotGrowOld'' (2018) (UsefulNotes/WorldWarI documentary)
42* ''Film/MortalEngines'' (2018) (Produced and co-wrote, but not directed)
43* ''Series/TheBeatlesGetBack'' (2021) (Documentary miniseries about the making of the album ''Music/LetItBe'')
44* ''The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun'' (TBA)
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47!!Tropes associated with Peter Jackson's work
48* CatchPhrase: "Let's just do one more for luck" -- the way he usually calls for the last take of a scene.
49* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: While he still directs, writes and produces, his early work also had Jackson as editor, cinematographer and helping with the effects (''Bad Taste'' also had him acting).
50* CreatorCameo: Usually in all of his films, bar ''Bad Taste''.
51* CreatorCouple: His wife Fran Walsh has been a co-writer and co-producer on all his films, with the exception of ''Bad Taste'', and provided the voice of the Nazgul in ''Lord of the Rings''.
52* CreatorThumbprint
53** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]] or one of its variants appears in most of the director's early films.
54** He has a penchant for shooting close-ups with very wide angle lenses.
55** Lots and lots of [[Main/{{Gorn}} blood and guts]], Main/PlayedForLaughs as much as for drama.
56** His productions base the creature design of creepy-crawlies and monsters on the native wildlife of his home country, New Zealand.
57** Transparent Green Ghosts that look like half-mummified corpses.
58** His favourite film is Film/KingKong1933, and he references it in his other movies.
59** Cameos for himself, his children, and Jed Brophy.
60* DescendedCreator: In ''Bad Taste'' he's one of the primary characters, Derek, since he'd run out of people to help and figured that he knew he'd show up to film.
61* DoingItForTheArt: Rather than money, he's very motivated by projects that he finds interesting and he knows would motivate him into putting-his-all in making.
62* ExecutiveMeddling: He’s had to deal with it '''twice'''. First on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and then again on ''Film/TheHobbit'', which because of this trope had a TroubledProduction.
63* {{Gorn}}: ''Bad Taste'' and ''Braindead'' are practically dripping with blood and guts, often in a [[BloodyHilarious comical manner]]. Even his PG-13 movies are quite violent, what with all the flying body parts in ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'' and people [[NightmareFuel eaten alive by monsters]] in ''King Kong.''
64** This led to ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' Extended Edition getting slapped with an R rating.
65* MonochromeCasting: He rarely has non-white actors in his movies and has never had a non-white main character.
66* PrefersGoingBarefoot: When filming his ''Lord of the Rings'' movies, he is said to have appeared on set barefoot "like a real-life Hobbit".
67* ShootTheMoney: He pursued ''The Lord of the Rings'' partly because he'd bought expensive workstations for ''Film/TheFrighteners'' and he wanted a visual-effects-heavy follow-up project to get his money's worth out of the machines.
68* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: His films differentiate. ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' and ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' are more on the cynical end. Film/TheLordOfTheRings trilogy however is heavily idealistic like the books. Some of his earlier films could be somewhere in the middle.
69* UncreditedRole: He had a brief uncredited cameo in ''Film/HotFuzz'' as the knife-wielding Santa Claus.
70* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Apparently, he was asked to collaborate on the production of ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'', but Creator/{{Amazon}} eventually worked on it without him. Jackson made clear that he doesn't consider this a snub and is interested in watching the show from a "perfectly neutral" perspective. Allegedly, the Tolkien Estate demanded him not to be included due to Christopher Tolkien's negative feelings about Jackson's films.
71-->'''Jackson''': They asked me if I wanted to be involved — [writer-producer Fran Walsh] and I — and I said, "That's an impossible question to answer without seeing a script." So they said, "As soon as we get the first couple scripts, we'll send them to you." And the scripts never showed up.

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