Category: Awards

Return of the King has been nominated in the Best Family Feature Film – Drama category at the 25th Annual Young Artists Awards. There’s a full list of all the nominees at Young Artists Awards. The awards will be presented on 8th May.

Online nominations for the Mithril Awards 2004 are now open for fanfiction, poetry & research articles based in any of JRR Tolkien’s works. Visit the Mithril Awards site for further details and to nominate.

‘Return of the King’ has won yet another award: this time, it’s The Christian Film and Television Commission’s Movieguide Awards. In the ceremony held on Wednesday, the film took the Number 1 spot in a list of the top 10 films for mature audiences. Read more at World Net Daily.

Peter Jackson has won the 2004 Wired Rave award for his work on the LotR movies. You can find out more about the awards and read an interview with PJ at wired.com.

At yesterday’s Australian DVD awards The Two Towers won the awards for best DVD, best audio commentary and best use of special features. There are further details at smh.com.

The Lord of the Rings has been nominated in the favorite book category in the 2004 Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards. The other nominees are; Holes, the Captain Underpants series and the Harry Potter series. You can place your vote by going to nick.com. The awards will be presented on 3rd April.

In this article at Yale Daily News, Nick Baldock talks about RotK’s successful night at the Oscars; but he says that he is disappointed in the Academy for not nominating RotK for Best Cinematography: an award that, if won, would have given the film a record-breaking 12 Oscars, rather than the record-tying 11 that it…

The Return of the King has been nominated for 4 Spacey awards: best SciFi or fantasy movie, best movie fx, best movie action sequence; and in the viewers choice category, Sam has been nominated for favourite movie hero. You can place your vote for Sam here.

The Return of the King is the first fantasy film to win the Best Picture Oscar. The movie’s 11 Oscar wins matched the 11 of Titanic and Ben-Hur and it’s only the third movie to win all the Oscars it was nominated for. Further details can be found at CNN.

Backstage, after the Oscar ceremony was over, Peter Jackson said, “All I’m feeling right now is absolute disbelief…you hope that you will win something, but the sweep is unreal. It speaks to the fact that people enjoyed the movies that we made on all levels, and that’s the idea – you want people to enjoy…