Category: Awards

If you are finding it difficult to keep track of all the major film awards Return of the King has been nominated for and which awards it has won, go to this great summary (including links to the award websites) at IMBd. While you are on the site, check out the all the links on…

The Screen Actors Guild awards will air on CityTV on Saturday, February 28th at 9pm. The SAG awards were held in LA on Sunday, February 22nd and the RotK cast won Best Film Ensemble. Liv Tyler was one of the presenters at the ceremony.

Return of the King has taken the Best Picture award at the Ninth Annual AOL Moviegoer Awards (FotR and TTT respectively won it the previous two years). Sean Astin won the Best Supporting Actor award, and Éowyn fighting the Witch-king won the Unforgettable Moment award. Read more at Time Warner.

The cast of Return of the King have won the Screen Actors Guild award for best film ensemble acting. This award is the Screen Actors Guild’s highest honour. There are further details of the awards at NZ Herald .

On Saturday 21st February, Ngila Dickson won the Costume Designers Guild award for Excellence in Film, Period/Fantasy. The award was given for her work on both Return of the King and The Last Samurai. There are further details at Business Wire.

Peter Jackson has won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film. The other nominees in this category were Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain), Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams). The awards were announced on Saturday 21st February.There are further details of the other winners at Reuters.

The Screen Actors Guild awards will be announced on Sunday, February 22. Return of the King has been nominated for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award. There are further details at SAG Awards. The show will air tomorrow on TNT at 8pm ET/PT.

The Writers Guild of America awards will be announced today, 21st February. Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson have been nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category. There are further details at the WGA website.

At the 2nd Annual Visual Effects Society awards RotK was a winner in the following 4 categories: Outstanding models and miniatures in a motion picture; Outstanding visual effects in a visual effects driven motion picture; Outstanding character animation in a live action motion picture; Outstanding performance by a male or female actor in an effects…

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers have announced that on 21st April Howard Shore will be presented with the Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement. There are further details, including the awards that Howard Shore has already won for his music for the LotR movies, at the ASCAP website.