Peter R. Jackson & Hobbiton Movie Set

 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY

New Zealand's stunning landscapes captivated movie fans around the world as the unbilled star of the hugely successful The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The Hobbiton Movie Set

from The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and The Hobbit films.

Facilities : 168km from Auckland Airport.

16km from Matamata, New Zealand.

Hobbiton Movie Set

 

The Lake Front Village

 

It's Hobbiton as it was created for Peter Jackson's movies

 

Hobbiton Movie Set

 

The Green Dragon Inn

 

The Green Dragon Inn Pop

 

The Evening Banquet

 

The Hobbiton Lights

 

 

Ever since the first The Lord of the Rings movie was released in 2001,

New Zealand has been known as the 'Home of Middle‑earth'.

Mangaotaki Rocks, Waikato

 

Middle‑earth may have been a figment of author J.R.R Tolkien's imagination

but New Zealand - the youngest country on earth - bears an uncanny resemblance.Dimrill Dale.

 

New Zealand’s dramatic scenery - golden plains, towering mountains and enchanting valleys - plays the mythical world of Middle‑earth on the big screen in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogy. More than 150 locations throughout the country were used to film The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogy.

 

The landscapes of Middle‑earth came alive after they were featured in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy from 2001-2003. Over 150 real New Zealand locations were used from the rolling green hills of Matamata in the North Island; Hobbiton, to Queenstown’s snowy jagged mountain peaks; the Remarkables, featured as The Dimrill Dale.

 

Sir Peter Robert Jackson

 

Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 in Wellington and was raised at the nearby coastal town of Pukerua Bay. His parents—Joan (née Ruck), a factory worker and housewife, and William "Bill" Jackson, a wages clerk—were emigrants from England.

 

Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is the third-highest-grossing film director of all time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.

 

Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), including the award for Best Director Golden Globe, four Saturn Awards and three BAFTAs among others.

 

His production company is WingNut Films Philippa Boyens . For his work on The Lord of the Rings, 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 Anand Satyanand, the Governor-General of New Zealand at a ceremony in Wellington in 2010. In 2014, Jackson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

 

The Return of the King is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. The film received numerous accolades; at the 76th Academy Awards it won all eleven awards for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Original Song for "Into the West", Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, therefore tying for the record for the most Academy Awards won by a single film and holding the record for the highest clean sweep at the Oscars.

 

The Hobbit (film series)

 

The films are subtitled An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

 

The Hobbit trilogy is one of the highest-grossing film series of all time. It was nominated for various awards and won several, although not as many as the original trilogy.