Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies beginning with ''Bad Taste'' (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.
His films also include ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989), ''Braindead'' (1992), ''The Frighteners'' (1996), ''King Kong'' (2005), ''The Lovely Bones'' (2009), and the upcoming ''The Lord of the Rings'' prequels ''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'' (2012) and ''The Hobbit: There and Back Again'' (2013). He is also the producer of ''District 9'' (2009) and ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (2011).
Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. He was later knighted (as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) by then Governor-General Anand Satyanand at a ceremony in Wellington in April, 2010.
Jackson, an only child, was born on 31 October 1961. He grew up in
Pukerua Bay, a coastal town near
Wellington. His parents - Joan (
born Ruck), a factory worker and housewife, and William (Bill) Jackson, a wages clerk - were both immigrants from
England. His
father was a veteran of the
Siege of Malta in
World War II. He is distantly related to
Richard Hill a member of the
English 2003 Rugby World Cup winner.
As a child, Jackson was a keen film fan, growing up on Ray Harryhausen films as well as finding inspiration in the television series ''Thunderbirds'' and ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''. After a family friend gave the Jacksons a Super 8 cine-camera with Peter in mind, he began making short films with his friends. Jackson has long cited ''King Kong'' as his favourite film and around the age of nine he attempted to remake it using his own stop-motion models. Also as a child Jackson made a WWII epic and a James Bond spoof named ''Coldfinger''. Most notably though was a 10 minute short called 'The Valley' which won him a special prize because of the shots he used.
In school Jackson expressed no interest (or skill) in sports. His classmates also remember him wearing a Duffel coat with " An obsession verging on religious."
Jackson had no formal training in film-making, but learned about editing, special effects and make-up largely through his own trial and error. As a young adult Jackson discovered the work of author J. R. R. Tolkien after watching ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978), an animated film by Ralph Bakshi that was a part-adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy trilogy.
When he was 16 years old, Jackson left school and began working full time as a photo-engraver for the local newspaper. For the 7 years he worked there, Jackson lived at home with his parents so he could save as much money as possible to spend on filming equipment. After two years of work Jackson bought a 16 mm camera, and began shooting a short film that later became ''Bad Taste''.
Over four years (from 1983 to 1987) Jackson's first feature, ''
Bad Taste'', grew in haphazard fashion from a short film into a 90-minute
splatter comedy, with many of Jackson's friends acting and working on it for free. Shooting was normally done in the weekends since Jackson was now working full-time. ''Bad Taste'' is about aliens that come to earth with the intention of turning humans into food. Jackson had two acting roles including a famous scene in which he fights himself on top of a cliff.
The film was finally completed thanks to a late injection of finance from the New Zealand Film Commission, after Jim Booth, the body's executive director, became convinced of Jackson's talent (Booth later left the Commission to become Jackson's producer). In May 1987, ''Bad Taste'' was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, where rights to the film quickly sold to twelve countries.
Around this time Peter Jackson began working on writing a number of film scripts, in varied collaborative groupings with playwright Stephen Sinclair, writer Fran Walsh and writer/actor Danny Mulheron. Walsh would later become his partner. Some of the scripts from this period, including a sequel to ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'', have never been made into movies; the proposed zombie film ''Braindead'' underwent extensive rewrites.
Jackson's next film to see release was ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989), co-written by the four writers mentioned above. An ensemble musical comedy starring Muppet-style puppets, ''Meet the Feebles'' originally began as a short film intended for television, but was rapidly expanded into a full-length film after unexpected enthusiasm from Japanese investors, and the collapse of ''Braindead'', six weeks before filming. Begun on a very low budget, ''Meet the Feebles'' went weeks over schedule. Jackson stated of his second feature length film, "It's got a quality of humour that alienates a lot of people.. It's very black, very satirical, very savage." ''Feebles'' marked Jackson's first collaboration with special effects team Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger, who would later work on all Jackson's movies.
Jackson's next release was the horror comedy ''Braindead'' (1992) (released in North America as ''Dead Alive''), now seen as a landmark in splatter movies. Originally planned as a Spanish co-production, the film reversed the usual zombie plot. Rather than keeping the zombies out of his place of refuge, the hero attempts to keep them inside, while maintaining a façade of normality. The film features extensive special effects including miniature trams, stop motion and a plethora of gory make-up effects.
Released in 1994 after Jackson won a race to bring the story to the screen, ''
Heavenly Creatures'' marked a major change for Jackson in terms of both style and tone. The film is based on real-life events: namely the
Parker–Hulme murder in which two teenage girls in 1950s
Christchurch became close friends, some say lovers, and later murdered the mother of one of the girls. Jackson's partner Fran Walsh helped persuade him that the events had the makings of a movie; Jackson has been quoted saying that the film "only got made" because of her enthusiasm for the subject matter. Many New Zealanders were apprehensive about how Jackson would treat the material, an apprehension that would later turn in many cases to relief. The film's fame coincided with the New Zealand media tracking down the real-life Juliet Hulme, who now wrote books under the name
Anne Perry. Jackson would cast the actors
Melanie Lynskey and
Kate Winslet in the roles of Parker and Hulme. ''Heavenly Creatures'' received considerable critical acclaim, including an
Academy Award nomination for
Best Original Screenplay and making top ten of the year lists in ''Time'', ''
The Guardian'', ''
The Sydney Morning Herald'', and ''
The New Zealand Herald''.
The success of ''Heavenly Creatures'' won Jackson attention from US company Miramax, who promoted the film vigorously in America and signed the director to a first-look deal.
The following year, in collaboration with Wellington film-maker Costa Botes, Jackson co-directed the mockumentary ''Forgotten Silver'' (1995). This ambitious made-for-television piece told the story of New Zealand film pioneer Colin McKenzie, who had supposedly invented colour film and 'talkies', and attempted an epic film of ''Salome'' before being forgotten by the world. Though the programme played in a slot normally reserved for drama, no other warning was given that it was fictionalised. Many were outraged at discovering Colin McKenzie had never existed. Some have argued that the number of people who believed the increasingly improbable story provides testimony to Jackson and Botes' skill at playing on New Zealand's national myth of a nation of innovators and forgotten trail-blazers.
In the meantime, Jackson and Walsh had two children, Billy (1995) and Katie (1996).
The success of ''
Heavenly Creatures'' helped pave the way for Jackson's first big budget Hollywood film, ''
The Frighteners'' starring
Michael J. Fox, in 1996. Thanks partly to support from American producer
Robert Zemeckis, Jackson was given permission to make this comedy/horror film entirely in New Zealand despite being set in a North American town. This period was a key one of change for both Jackson and
Weta Workshop, the special effects company — born from the one man contributions of George Port to ''Heavenly Creatures'' — with which Jackson is often associated. Weta, initiated by Jackson and key collaborators, grew rapidly during this period to incorporate both digital and physical effects, make-up and costumes, the first two areas normally commanded by Jackson collaborator Richard Taylor.
''The Frighteners'' was regarded as a commercial failure. Some critics expressed disappointment that it displayed little of the anarchistic humor of Jackson's early movies and that the script felt underdeveloped. In February 1997, Jackson launched legal proceedings against the ''New Zealand Listener'' magazine for defamation, over a review of ''The Frighteners'' which claimed that the film was "built from the rubble of other people's movies". In the end, the case was not pursued further. Around this time Jackson's remake of ''King Kong'' was shelved by Universal Studios, partly because of ''Mighty Joe Young'' and Godzilla (1998 film), both giant monster movies, that had already gone into production. Universal feared it would be thrown aside by the two higher budget movies.
This period of transition seems not to have been entirely a happy one; it also marked one of the high points of tension between Jackson and the New Zealand Film Commission since ''Meet the Feebles'' had gone over-budget earlier in his career. Jackson has claimed the Commission considered firing him from ''Feebles'', though the NZFC went on to help fund his next three films. In 1997, the director submitted a lengthy criticism of the Commission for a magazine supplement meant to celebrate the body's 20th anniversary, criticising what he called inconsistent decision-making by inexperienced board members. The magazine felt that the material was too long and potentially defamatory to publish in that form; a shortened version of the material went on to appear in ''Metro'' magazine. In the ''Metro'' article Jackson criticized the Commission over funding decisions concerning a film he was hoping to executive produce, but refused to drop a client-confidentiality clause that allowed them to publicly reply to his criticisms.
Peter Jackson won the rights to film J. R. R. Tolkien's epic in 1997 after meeting with producer
Saul Zaentz. Originally working with
Miramax towards a two-film production, Jackson was later pressured to render the story as a single film, and finally overcame a tight deadline by making a last minute deal with
New Line, who were keen on a trilogy.
Principal photography stretched from 11 October 1999 to 22 December 2000 with extensive location filming across New Zealand. With the benefit of extended post-production and extra periods of shooting before each film's release, the series met huge success and sent Jackson's popularity soaring. ''The Return of the King'' itself met with huge critical acclaim, winning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film was the first of the fantasy film genre to win the award for Best Picture and was the second sequel to win Best Picture (the first being ''The Godfather Part II'').
Jackson's mother, Joan, died three days before the release of the first movie in the trilogy, ''The Fellowship of the Ring''. There was a special showing of the film after her funeral.
Following ''The Return of the King'', Jackson lost a large amount of weight –over to the point of being unrecognisable to some fans. In ''The Daily Telegraph'', he attributed his weight loss to his diet. He said, "I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli and it seems to work."
Universal Studios signed Peter Jackson for a second time to remake the 1933 classic ''
King Kong'' — the film that inspired him to become a film director as a child. He was reportedly paid a fee of US$20 million upfront, the highest salary ever paid to date to a film director in advance of production, against a 20 percent take of the box-office rentals (the portion of the price of the ticket that goes to the film distributor, in this case Universal). The film was released on 14 December 2005, and grossed around US$550 million worldwide.
Jackson completed an
adaptation of
Alice Sebold's bestseller, ''
The Lovely Bones'', which was released in the United States on 11 December 2009. Jackson has said the film was a welcome relief from his larger-scale epics. The storyline's combination of fantasy aspects and themes of murder bears some similarities to ''Heavenly Creatures''.
The film was an anticipated Best Picture Oscar contender, but ended up receiving poor reviews and middling box office returns. It currently holds 32% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jackson is the main producer on ''
The Adventures of Tintin'', directed by
Steven Spielberg. He is officially labeled as producer but helped Spielberg, before he began working on ''
The Hobbit'', directing the film. He also supervised
Weta Digital on the post production of the film.
Jamie Bell and
Andy Serkis were cast due to their collaboration with Peter Jackson on ''
King Kong'' and ''
The Lord of the Rings''. Spielberg also chose to work with Peter Jackson due to the impressive digital work on the ''Lord of the Rings'' films, and knew Peter Jackson's company
Weta Workshop would make his vision a reality.
In December 2011, Spielberg confirmed a sequel to his 3D movie will be made and are said to be based on ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' and ''Prisoners of the Sun''. He explained the Thompson detectives will "have a much bigger role". The sequel will be produced by Spielberg and directed by Jackson. Kathleen Kennedy said the script might be done by February or March 2012 and motion-captured in summer 2012, so that the movie will be on track to be released on either Christmas 2014 or summer 2015. In February 2012, Spielberg revealed to ''Total Film'' that they had completed a story outline for the sequel.
Jackson had talked of producing films for others as early as 1995, but a number of factors slowed developments in this regard, including the failure of ''
Jack Brown Genius'' (1995). After he became a force in Hollywood, he was set to produce a $128 million movie version of the science fiction video game series ''
Halo'', but the project went on hold when financial backers withdrew their support. The failure of Halo however led to what became ''
District 9'', which ended up being a box office hit and garnered a Best Picture nomination.
Jackson is set to produce a remake of ''The Dam Busters'', to be directed by longtime Weta designer Christian Rivers and for which Stephen Fry has written a screenplay.
Jackson has also won the rights to a film adaptation of the fantasy novel series ''Temeraire'', a novel about dragons being used in combat in the Napoleonic Wars and a dragon named Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, written by Naomi Novik. It remains to be seen if he will direct it.
Jackson produced ''District 9'', a science fiction project which Neill Blomkamp directed. The script was written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell.
In recent years, Jackson has also directed a short film entitled ''Crossing the Line'' to test a new model of digital cinema camera, the RED ONE. The film takes place during World War I, and was shot in two days. "Crossing the Line" was shown at NAB 2007 (the USA National Association of Broadcasters). Clips of the film can be found at Reduser.net.
Jackson and his newly formed studio Wingnut Interactive are working on an unrevealed project being developed by Microsoft Game Studios in collaboration with Bungie Studios. The project has been officially titled ''Halo: Chronicles'' but beyond speculation little else is known about its nature. He was to be the executive producer on a ''Halo'' film, developed and released by Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox but in October 2006 the film was postponed indefinitely. The film was never officially cancelled and in late June 2008 Peter Jackson commented that, "With upcoming developments (Halo: Chronicles), I wouldn't know when to expect a movie, and I'm the producer."
Jackson spent $5 million to purchase 20 hectares of land in Wairarapa, a property containing a mansion, private lake, tunnel and the interior of Bag End from ''The Lord of the Rings''. In 2009, he purchased a Gulfstream G550 jet; his total net worth is estimated by ''National Business Review'' at NZ$450 million. Jackson owns an aircraft restoration and manufacturing company, The Vintage Aviator, which is dedicated to World War I and World War II fighter planes among other planes from the 1920s and 1930s. He is chairman of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Trust, which hosts a biennial air show. In late December 2009 announced his interest on the movie adaption of the novel Mortal Engines. In April 2010 it was confirmed that he would be both director and producer of the project and as of May 2010 it is rumoured that WETA has already begun preliminary work on the movie.
Jackson's involvement in the making of a film version of ''The Hobbit'', has a long and chequered history. In November 2006, a letter from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh stated that due to an ongoing legal dispute between Wingnut Films (Jackson's production company) and New Line Cinema, Jackson would not be directing the film. New Line Cinema's head Robert Shaye commented that Jackson "...will never make any movie with New Line Cinema again while I'm still working at the company...". This prompted an online call for a boycott of New Line Cinema, and by August 2007 Shaye was trying to repair his working relationship. On 18 December 2007, it was announced that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema had reached agreement to make two prequels, both based on ''The Hobbit'', and to be released in 2012 and 2013 with Jackson as a writer and executive producer and Guillermo del Toro directing.
However, in early 2010, del Toro dropped out of directing the film because of production delays and a month later Jackson was back in negotiations to direct ''The Hobbit''; and on October 15 he was finalised as the director—with New Zealand confirmed as the location a couple of weeks later. The film started production on March 20, 2011.
Jackson was set to make games with
Microsoft Game Studios, a partnership announced on 27 September 2006, at
X06. Specifically, Jackson and Microsoft were teaming together to form a new studio called Wingnut Interactive. In collaboration with
Bungie Studios, Jackson was to co-write, co-design and co-produce a new game taking place in the
Halo universe - tentatively called ''
Halo: Chronicles''. However on 27 July 2009, in an interview about his new movie ''District 9'', he said that ''
Halo: Chronicles'' had been cancelled, while Microsoft confirmed that the game is "on hold". Jackson's game studio Wingnut Interactive is now at work on original intellectual property.
Jackson has given
NZ$500,000 to
stem cell research.
He purchased a church in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun for about $10 million, saving it from demolition.
He also contributes his expertise to 48HOURS, a New Zealand film-making competition, through annually selecting 3 "Wildcards" for the National Final.
Jackson, a World War I aviation enthusiast, is chair of the 14-18 Aviation Heritage Trust. He donated his services and provided replica aircraft to create a 10 minute multimedia display called ''Over the Front'' for the Australian War Memorial in 2008.
He contributed to the defense fund for the West Memphis Three.
In 2011, Jackson and Walsh purchased 1 Kent Terrace, the home of BATS Theatre in Wellington, effectively securing the theatre's future.
Jackson is known for his attention to detail, a habit of shooting scenes from many angles, a macabre sense of humour, and a general playfulness - the latter to the point where ''The Lord of the Rings'' conceptual designer
Alan Lee jokingly remarked "the film is almost incidental really".
Jackson was a noted perfectionist on the ''Lord of the Rings'' shoot, where he demanded numerous takes of scenes, requesting additional takes by repeatedly saying, "one more for luck". Jackson is also renowned within the New Zealand film industry for his insistence on "coverage" — shooting a scene from as many angles as possible, giving him more options during editing. Jackson has been known to spend days shooting a single scene. This is evident in his work where even scenes featuring simple conversations often feature a wide array of multiple camera angles and shot-sizes as well as zooming closeups on characters' faces. One of his most common visual trademarks is shooting close-ups of actors with wide-angle lenses.
Unlike some other film directors, Jackson has remained in his native country to make films. This has been the genesis of several production and support companies. Most of Jackson's assets are found on the Miramar Peninsula in his home town of Wellington where much of his filming occurs; and he was instrumental in having the world premiere of ''The Return of the King'' in the city's iconic Embassy Theatre which he helped restore.
He was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to a number of Hollywood films by use of telecommunications and satellite links to transmit raw images and the final results across the Pacific Ocean.
During filming of ''The Lord of the Rings'', Jackson was famous for wearing shorts and going barefoot under most circumstances, especially during film shoots.
Jackson usually makes cameo appearances in his own films:
In ''The Lovely Bones'', he appears as a customer in a camera store playing with a camera.
Jackson appears as a biplane gunner attacking Kong in New York, reprising the cameo which original ''King Kong'' filmmaker Merian C. Cooper made in his 1933 film.
''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy includes multiple cameos. In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Jackson plays a drunken, carrot-chomping citizen of Bree. In ''The Two Towers'', he plays a spear-throwing defender of Helm's Deep. In his significant cameo in ''The Return of the King'' he is seen as the boatswain of a murderous corsair ship. This character is seen very briefly in the theatrical version. In the extended version he is onscreen for a longer period of time and is accidentally killed by Legolas's "warning shot". A detailed action figure of Jackson was made of this character in the same line as the rest of the Lord of the Rings toys.
Jackson's second cameo in ''Return of the King'' is during the scene of
Shelob's Lair, where Sam's arm (Jackson's) is seen entering the shot as Shelob is wrapping Frodo in webbing. This was due to Sean Astin's temporary absence, and Peter wanted to progress the production of the scene as much as possible, even without the actor.
In ''The Frighteners'', Jackson is a biker bumped into by Frank Bannister.
In ''Heavenly Creatures'', he is the bum who gets kissed by Juliet Hulme.
In ''Braindead'', he is the mortician's assistant.
In the puppet movie ''Meet the Feebles'', Jackson appears as an audience member disguised as one of the aliens from ''Bad Taste''.
He has also made cameos in several films not directed by him. In the opening sequence of ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007), he played a demented man dressed as Father Christmas, who stabs Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) in the hand. Pegg, in the commentary, joked that when Jackson saw that his cameo was extremely short, he walked out of the theater and walked in circles in the hallway for the rest of the duration of the film.
Jackson's eldest son, Billy (born 1995), has made cameo appearances in every one of his father's films since his birth, namely ''The Frighteners'' (1996), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, and ''King Kong''. His daughter, Katie (born 1996), appears in all the above films except ''The Frighteners''.
Jackson had a cameo on the HBO show ''Entourage'' in 5 August 2007 episode, "Gary's Desk", in which he offers a business proposal to Eric Murphy, manager to the lead character, Vincent Chase.
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Best Picture
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
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Best Picture
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Best Picture
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''District 9''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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''King Kong''
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''Heavenly Creatures''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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''District 9''
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Best Director
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Best Director
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Best Director
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''Heavenly Creatures''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
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''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
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Jackson was appointed a Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit, in the 2002 New Year Honours. In 2010 he was advanced to Knight Companion of New Zealand. The investiture ceremony took place at Premier House in Wellington on 28 April 2010.
Brian Sibley. ''Peter Jackson- A Film-maker's Journey''. Sydney, HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0732285623.
Ian Pryor. ''Peter Jackson- From prince of splatter to lord of the rings''. Auckland, Random House, 2003, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN 1869415558 (NZ Edition)
Andrea Bordoni, Matteo Marino, "Peter Jackson". Milan,
Il Castoro, 2002. ISBN 9788880332251. The first book-length study of the director.
Cinema of New Zealand
List of New Zealand film makers
Park Road Post
Weta Workshop
Weta Digital
The official Peter Jackson fanclub
In-depth interview about ''King Kong'' and future projects
Peter Jackson at FEARnet
Peter Jackson's trip from splatstick to RAF
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