Peter Jackson was recently at the 59th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, where he received the 2026 Honorary Grand Prize for his decades of work as a film director. Jackson started his career directing horror movies like Braindead. He won acclaim in 1994 for the psychological true crime drama Heavenly Creatures, and became a household name thanks to The Lord of the Ringstrilogy in the early 2000s. He’s been closely associated with the franchise ever since, returning to direct The Hobbittrilogy in the 2010s.

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