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PETER JACKSON (Director / Screenplay by / Produced by) made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of film awards from around the globe, including 17 Academy Awards®, 12 British Academy of Film and Television Awards and four Golden Globes. 4More NAOMI WATTS (Ann Darrow) received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress for her role in Alejandro Gonzáles Iòárritu's 21 Grams, in which she starred alongside Sean Penn. Her performance also garnered Best Actress awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Southeastern Film Critics Association, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association and San Diego Film Critics Society, as well as Best Actress nominations from the SAG, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics Association and International Press Academy. 4More JACK BLACK (Carl Denham) has appeared in many motion pictures, but it was his scene-stealing performance as John Cusack's sarcastic music store employee in Stephen Frears' critically acclaimed comedy High Fidelity that cemented his place in the hearts of audiences. That breakout role in 2000 garnered him a Blockbuster Entertainment Award in the Supporting Actor category and a nomination for an American Comedy Award. Black then co-hosted the 2002 MTV Movie Awards with Sarah Michelle Gellar; the program was the highest rated MTV Movie Awards show ever and was the top rated cable program of the year. 4More ADRIEN BRODY (Jack Driscoll) has made an indelible impression on Hollywood. His Oscar® win for his performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist made him the youngest person to win a Best Actor award. His portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman also earned him Best Actor nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. Other accolades for this performance include those from the César Awards (French equivalent of the Oscars®), the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics. 4More ANDY SERKIS' (Kong / Lumpy the Cook) most memorable and critically acclaimed role was as Gollum in all three The Lord of the Rings films. Serkis was also recently seen opposite Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo in 13 Going on 30, directed by Gary Winick. His other feature film roles include Quinn in the World War I horror feature Deathwatch; the Factory Records producer Martin Hannett in 24 Hour Party People; the eccentric choreographer in Topsy-Turvy; and as the coked up yuppie in Career Girls. 4More King Kong Other Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, Evan Parke, Kyle Chandler FRAN WALSH (Screenplay by / Produced by) has received numerous nominations from around the globe for co-writing and producing The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, but it is her work on The Return of the King, the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, that has been most celebrated. Walsh shared writing, producing and songwriting credits on The Return of the King, for which she garnered three Academy Awards®, three BAFTAs, two Golden Globes and a Producers Guild Award. 4More PHILIPPA BOYENS (Screenplay by / Co-Producer)-who made her debut as a screenwriter with The Lord of the Rings trilogy-has won (along with co-writers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh) an Oscar® and a BAFTA and has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards, among others. Prior to working as a screenwriter, Boyens worked in theater as a playwright, teacher, producer and editor. Boyens moved to film via a stint as director of the New Zealand Writers Guild. Unsurprisingly, when asked by Jackson and Walsh if she'd like to work with them again on the remake of King Kong, she said, “Yes.” 4More King Kong Crew: Andrew Lesnie, Grant Major, Jamie Selkirk, Richard Taylor, Joe Letteri, James Newton Howard