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ANDREW LESNIE, ACS, ASC (Director of Photography) won an Academy Award® for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; he was also nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Cinematography Award, along with numerous other awards and accolades.
Lesnie won the Australian Cinematographers Society's coveted Milli Award in 1995 and 1996, making him Australia's Cinematographer of the Year two years running. He also won the 1997 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography for Doing Time for Patsy Cline, as well as a 1997 ACS Gold Award for the same film. In 1996, he won the ACS Golden Tripod Award for Babe, the same in 1995 for Temptation of a Monk, and again in 1994 for Spider and Rose.
His other feature film credits include Two if by Sea, The Sugar Factory, Fatal Past, The Delinquents, Dark Age, Boys in the Island, Daydream Believer and Unfinished Business, among others. Lesnie also executed second unit photography on Farewell to the King, Incident at Raven's Gate and Around the World in Eighty Ways, and shot the documentaries The Making of The Road Warrior, Stages (about Peter Brook and the Paris Theatre Company in Australia) and The Comeback, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. His television credits include The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, Melba (ACS Merit Award) and Cyclone Tracy (ACS Golden Tripod Award for Best Photographed miniseries). In addition, Lesnie has garnered ACS awards for the short films The Outing and The Same Stream.
GRANT MAJOR (Production Designer) was nominated for three Academy Awards® and three BAFTAs for his work as a production designer on The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Major won an American Film Institute Award for The Fellowship of the Ring, as well as an Art Directors Guild Award for The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Major finally claimed his Academy Award® and a Los Angeles Film Critics Society Award on the third installment of the trilogy, The Return of the King. He was nominated by the International Press Academy for a Satellite Award in 2003 for his work as a production designer on both The Return of the King and on Whale Rider, winning for The Return of the King.
Previously, Major received a New Zealand Film and Television Award for Best Design on Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures in 1995. Two years later, he picked up the same award for The Ugly. Major's other film credits include Jackson's The Frighteners, Memory and Desire, The Aberrations, Jack Be Nimble and An Angel At My Table; additionally, he served as art director on Other Halves. Major's work as an art director for television includes the telefilms Hercules and The Grasscutter and the series Hanlon, as well as commercials and news programs. Major also worked as a production designer on the telefilm The Chosen.
Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Major's career in design began at Television New Zealand. His background covers a wide range of design in various fields: from production design for the Commonwealth Games Federation ceremonies to designer for the New Zealand Pavilions at the World Expos to design consultant for the Louis Vuitton 150th anniversary parties in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Paris. Major received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Auckland University of Technology.
JAMIE SELKIRK, ACE (Film Editor) has collaborated with Peter Jackson on the majority of his projects, firstly as a picture/sound editor and post-production supervisor for Bad Taste, followed by similar work on Meet the Feebles and Heavenly Creatures. Braindead saw Selkirk move to associate producer and editor, with a further move to producer and editor for Jackson's project The Frighteners. Selkirk filled two roles on The Lord of the Rings trilogy-serving first as post-production producer and then as editor on the final installment, The Return of the King. For this film, Selkirk collected an Academy Award® for Best Editing.
Selkirk's other credits include Jack Brown Genius, The Lie of the Land, Battletruck, The Scarecrow, Wild Horses and The Silent One.
Selkirk's career in editing started in the studio at the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporations. He moved to editorial as a trainee editor and then began cutting newsreels, current affairs, documentaries and dramas. Before his foray to production, Selkirk formed his own post-production company, Mr. Chopper, and worked on a variety of productions and television commercials.
RICHARD TAYLOR (Special Makeup, Creatures and Miniatures) and his partner, Tania Rodger, began what would become Weta Workshop Ltd. 15 years ago when their dream of creating a special effects facility to support the New Zealand film and television industry became reality.
Their first job was providing caricatured puppets for Gibson Group's Public Eye satire show. In the years that followed, a close working relationship developed between Taylor, Rodger and Peter Jackson, working on Jackson's Meet the Feebles, Braindead, Forgotten Silver, Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners. The culmination of this relationship saw the formation of Weta with Taylor, Rodger, Jackson and producer Jamie Selkirk going into business together. Over the past 15 years, the company has provided physical and digital effects for many films, advertisements and television shows, including the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess series.
The crowning achievement for Weta has been the globally acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which Weta provided the design, fabrication and on-set operation of the creatures, special makeup effects and prosthetics, miniatures, armor and weaponry. Weta also provided the full range of digital services, from simple compositing to animation of fully computer-generated creatures. For this unprecedented undertaking, Weta has garnered worldwide praise and awards, including three BAFTAs and four Academy Awards® to date.
JOE LETTERI (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor) has pioneered and developed many of the digital techniques that have become the standard in bringing photographic quality to high-end visual effects. As an artist, he has specialized in the creation of highly realistic imagery, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.
Letteri is the winner of two Academy Awards® for the visual effects of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. He is also the recipient of the Academy's Technical Achievement Award for co-developing the subsurface scattering technique that was used to bring Gollum to life. In 2004, Letteri was nominated for the visual effects Oscar® for I, Robot.
Letteri joined Weta Digital in 2001 as visual effects supervisor on The Two Towers and The Return of the King. He had previously worked at Industrial Light & Magic, starting there in 1991, and later served as visual effects supervisor on Mission: Impossible (1995).
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD (Music by) is one of Hollywood's most versatile and prolific composers, with more than 90 films to his credit. He has received six Academy Award® nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and one Grammy nomination. In addition, he has won 28 ASCAP Awards for film and television shows scored from 1994 to 2005. His credits include films as diverse as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Fugitive, Pretty Woman, The Prince of Tides, Grand Canyon, Dave, Primal Fear, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Devil's Advocate and Dinosaur.
Howard's more recent projects include Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; the horror sequel The Ring Two; the comedy Miss Congeniality 2; Michael Mann's Collateral; M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, for which Howard received his sixth Oscar® nomination for Best Original Score; Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen; and the live-action Peter Pan. Upcoming projects for Howard include Joe Roth's Freedomland, Barry Sonnenfeld's R.V., M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water and the as-yet-untitled sequel to Batman Begins.
Howard attended Santa Barbara's Musical Academy of the West and the University of Southern California's School of Music and completed his formal education with orchestration study under legendary arranger Marty Paich. Though his training was classical, he nurtured an interest in rock and pop. It was in his early work in the pop arena that he really honed his talents as songwriter, musician, arranger, producer and composer.
He spent two years doing session work for a variety of performers, from Carly Simon to Ringo Starr, and also recorded two solo albums. In 1975, he joined pop superstar Elton John's band on the road and in the studio doing orchestrations and string arrangements. Having become one of the most sought-after musicians in the industry as a songwriter, record producer, conductor, keyboardist and film composer, he racked up a string of collaborations in the studio with some of pop's biggest names, including Barbra Streisand, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, Chaka Khan, Olivia Newton-John, Earth Wind & Fire, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart and Glenn Frey, among others.
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