Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 at Pukerua Bay, Porirua City, New Zealand. He is a film writer, director, and producer.

Peter's first public showings were "splatstick" comedies, a far cry from the movie Heavenly Creatures, for which he shared with Fran Walsh an Oscar nomination for "Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen".

Real fame came a little later, with his direction of the epic film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, based on the books of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. The third in the trilogy earned an Oscar in all 11 categories it was nominated for.