Introduction

Have you ever heard of the movie series The Hobbit or Lord Of The Rings? They were both directed by a NZ based director. Sir Peter Jackson has lots of achievements in the film industry.

This is a biography of Sir Peter Jackson of how he has become such a famous world wide director, also to show how he has got all of these achievements and how he became a director in the first place, to show what movies he got awards for.

Childhood

Sir Peter Jackson, was born on 31st of october 1961. He was born in Pukerua bay in Wellington, his mother was a house wife and his father was a factory worker.Sir Peter Jackson’s parents were migrants that came from England.Sir Peter Jackson was always keen on films, ever since he was a young child. When Sir Peter Jackson was a child some family friends had gifted  them a Super-S cine camera. Because Sir Peter Jackson was never really into sports, he spent most of his time inside making and doing stop motion. At age 9 he had made stop motion models, when he was doing stop motion he would remake some of his all time most favourite movies such as King Kong.

 

Sir Peter Jackson never really had any training doing stop motion directing or editing. So just by picking up new tricks through trial and error,and  just by making stop motion remakes of movies he was keen off. He learnt new tricks. And while he was learning new tricks he had gotten a new camera by his parents that was able to do so that he was with his other camera that his parents got him. So with that camera he got to learn more tricks like glitching the stop motion figures.

Inspiration of why he wanted to do what he is doing now.

Sir Peter Jackson was always into the film industry. But what truly inspired him was when he was a young adult he had come across a book author called J.R.R Tolkien after seeing an animation of one of the books Lord Of The Rings, after a few years Sir Peter Jackson knew what he wanted to become for the future and chose to become a director.

 

In an interview when Sir Peter Jackson had already became a director Sir Peter Jackson had recalled in his past he said that after watching curtain films it had given him a certain kick, and inspiration so after that it made it clear to him why he wanted to become a director, and show others that curtain kick he had got from watching films from his time and show newer generation that kick so it shows a real reason of why you want to do that job.

Other films he had directed and created.

Sir Peter Jackson has made lots of movies,before creating and directing 2 of his biggest hits The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings. His first ever movie was called Splatstick.then another movie called bad take that had been released in 1987, and a movie called Brain dead that was released in 1992 that also had shared a nomination for best original screenplay award. And Jackson had lots of other films that had probably got main awards and Lord of the rings was nominated for best production award and more than 40 awards and more that 60 nominations throughout 2002-2003 and a bit of 2004. Meaning of when the films were released

Charity and other things.

In 2006 Sir Peter Jackson had donated more than 500,000 to a research organisation in Wellington. Also in 2012 Sir Peter Jackson supported the American white cross. Jackson had donated huge amounts of money to churches during New Zealand’s downfall and when they were losing,huge amounts of profit and he had saved them by donating and saving them from going bankrupt. He had also in 2011 purchased for Terraces, at the home of flute bats theatre, in Wellington that had fully secured the future of the theatre.Sir Peter Jackson has donated more that a million dollar to small children fund ration and donated to main things around areas that he had lived in and valued since he was young.

 

Achievements  that He has achieved  during making films.

Jackson has made lots of memorable achievements during these years of working in the film/movie industry. First he had over 28 awards that he had won and more than 30 nominations with most of his films. He has got more than 20 nominations alone on Lord of The Rings.

He was also knighted by Sir Anand for his huge contribution to the New Zealand kiwi Film industry, in 2009 Jackson had a net worth of about 3.5 million dollars in USD. And has two main film series that helped him grow even more, that were the Hobbit  and Lord Of The Rings. The Hobbit alone made more than 29 million dollars for only one movie. The hobbit for all three movies have made over a billion dollars together.

 

What is Sir Peter Jackson doing now.

Sir Peter Jackson is now making a brand new movie in collaboration with The Warner Brothers film, that is from another book for J.R.R Tolkien called The hunt for Gollum  and it is now due to release in maybe around mid 2026. But aside from the film industry he is now with his family of his children and wife in Los Angeles in the USA.

And Sir Peter Jackson is now 50+ and he is still working on films and doing stuff that involves charity and donating to small organisations to help kids. That are indeed of stuff and a home

Conclusion

Sir Peter Jackson had always been keen about the movie and film industry and had wanted to become a director since he was pretty young. And now he accomplished huge atchements and directed two of the biggest film series to exist. He is now continuing to make more movies, so now in conclusion Sir Peter Jackson had made lots of achievements in films and just living in general and has got people’s hearts so that is the end of Sir Peter Jackson’s biography.