PeterJackson
- Director
- Producer
Peter Jackson has gone from being a shy, unknown fanboy making pastiche versions of his favourite fantasy movies, to a renowned master of his craft; from Pukerua Bay to Wellywood: today he has few peers in the realm of large scale filmmaking.
Screenography
Biography
Peter Jackson grew up in the seaside village of Pukerua Bay, 40 minutes north of Wellington. His doting parents, Bill and Joan, had an early taste of their precocious son's future when he was given a super 8mm camera and proceeded to make war movies in the backyard. For years, their garden was repeatedly dug up as young Peter strove to recreate the battlefield trenches of the Somme.
Awards
2026 Cannes Film Festival
Presented with the Honorary Palme d'Or
2022 Producers Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television (shared with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Clare Olssen, Jonathan Clyde, Jeff Jones and Ken Kamins): for The Beatles: Get Back
“Startling ... it combines original vision, a drop-dead command of the medium and a successful marriage between a dazzling, kinetic techno-show and a complex, credible portrait of the out-of-control relationship between the crime's two schoolgirl perpetrators.”
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