Max Dennison
Max Dennison is a professional digital matte painter and illustrator.
After secondary education at Villiers School in Limerick, and then art school, Dennison quickly established a career producing matte paintings and concept work for the international special effects industry.
Dennison achieved critical acclaim through his work on Academy award- winning films such as Peter Jackson's" The Lord of the Rings" and John Madden's" Shakespeare in Love".
In 2003, while supervising the matte painting department at Weta Digital on" Lord of the Rings", Dennison was also nominated for the award of" Best Matte Painting in a Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work on" The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".
Having worked on for Industrial Light& Magic in 2004, he is now based in London and most recently completed work on," The Da Vinci Code" and Bryan Singer's" Superman Returns".
Since then, he set up Matte Painting UK in 2007 based in Shepperton Studios where he and his team continue to produce VFX for the international film industries.
Middle-earth in film
J. R. R. Tolkien's novels" The Hobbit" and" The Lord of the Rings", set in Middle- earth, have been the subject of various film adaptations.
There were many early failed attempts to bring the fictional universe to life in screen, some even rejected by the author himself.
The first depictions of Middle- earth on film were realized in 1966 as a short cartoon film.
In 1978 the first big screen adaptation of the fictional setting was introduced in" The Lord of the Rings".
The story was more or less completed with the animated television special" The Return of the King".
In 1985, Middle- earth was depicted in a live- action film for the first time by an adaptation produced in the Soviet Union.
In 1993, a live- action television miniseries titled" Hobitit" was aired by the Finnish broadcaster Yle.
New Line Cinema released the first part of director Peter Jackson's" The Lord of the Rings" film series in 2001 as part of a trilogy and several actors and roles were introduced once again in a trilogy in" The Hobbit" film series.
There have also been fan films of Middle- earth such as" The Hunt for Gollum" and" Born of Hope", which were uploaded to YouTube on May 8, 2009 and December 11, 2009 respectively.
Collectively, the franchise has received a record 37 Academy Award nominations, winning 17, and one special award, also a record.
Along with" The Godfather" trilogy, it is one of two film series to date to have received three Best Picture nominations.
The third film in Peter Jackson's trilogy,, was the first and, as of 2017, only fantasy film to win Best Picture, as well as the second sequel to do so after" The Godfather Part II".
Furthermore, it is currently the only film to be the third in a series and win the award.
Along with" Titanic" and" Ben- HurThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" holds the record for Academy Awards won by a single film and is the only one of the three films to win every category for which it was nominated.
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson( born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the" Lord of the Rings" trilogy( 2001 – 03) and the" Hobbit" trilogy( 2012 – 14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Other films include the critically lauded drama" Heavenly Creatures"( 1994), the mockumentary film" Forgotten Silver"( 1995), the horror comedy" The Frighteners"( 1996), the epic monster remake film" King Kong"( 2005), the supernatural drama film" The Lovely Bones"( 2009), and the World War I documentary film" They Shall Not Grow Old"( 2018).
He produced" District 9"( 2009)," The Adventures of Tintin"( 2011)," West of Memphis"( 2012), and" Mortal Engines"( 2018).
He is the third- highest grossing film director, his films having made over$ 6.5 billion worldwide.
Jackson began his career with the" splatstick" horror comedy" Bad Taste"( 1987) and the black comedy" Meet the Feebles"( 1989) before filming the zombie comedy" Braindead"( 1992).
He shared a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with his partner Fran Walsh for" Heavenly Creatures", which brought him to mainstream prominence in the film industry.
Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards for( 2003), including the award for Best Director.
His other awards include a Golden Globe, four Saturn Awards and three BAFTAs among others.
His production company is WingNut Films, and his most regular collaborators are co-writers and producers Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002.
He was later knighted( as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) by Anand Satyanand, the Governor- General of New Zealand, at a ceremony in Wellington in April 2010.
In December 2014, Jackson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Simon Bright
Simon Bright is an art director and set decorator who is best known for" The Lord of the Rings" films.
For My Father
For My Father( translit. Sof Shavua B' Tel Aviv) is a 2008 Israeli drama film directed by Dror Zahavi.
It was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
Doug Adams (music journalist)
Doug Adams is a musician, author, lecturer, and educator.
He is the author of" The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films", a book about the music in" The Lord of the Rings" films.
Ngila Dickson
Ngila Beryl Dickson( born 1958) is a costume designer from New Zealand.
Her most notable work is in and, both of which were filmed in New Zealand, as well as her years of work on.
She and Richard Taylor won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the" Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"( 2004).
Other Academy Award nominations were for" Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"( 2002) and" The Last Samurai"( 2004).
She received British Film and Television Award nominations for" Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"( 2002) and" Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"( 2004).
She and Richard Taylor won a BAFTA for" Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"( 2003).
She won the Costume Designers Guild Award for" Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"( 2004) Dickson is married to Hamish Keith.
In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dickson was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to design and the film industry.
Dror Zahavi
Dror Zahavi( born 6 February 1959) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.
He has directed more than 25 films and television shows since 1992.
His 2008 film" For My Father" was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
Lani Jackson
Lani Jackson is a New Zealand stuntwoman best known for her work in" The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers is a 2002 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's" The Lord of the Rings".
The film is the second instalment in" The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and was produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Jackson, and written by Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Jackson.
The film features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys- Davies, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Brad Dourif, Karl Urban and Andy Serkis.
It was preceded by( 2001) and followed by( 2003).
Continuing the plot of" The Fellowship of the Ring", the film intercuts three storylines.
Frodo and Sam continue their journey towards Mordor to destroy the One Ring, meeting and joined by Gollum, the ring's former owner.
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the war- torn nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf, before fighting at the Battle of Helm's Deep.
Merry and Pippin escape capture, meet Treebeard the Ent, and help to plan an attack on Isengard.
" The Two Towers" was financed and distributed by American studio New Line Cinema, but filmed and edited entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand, concurrently with the other two parts of the trilogy.
Released on 18 December 2002, the film was highly acclaimed by critics and fans alike, who considered it to be a landmark in filmmaking and an achievement in the fantasy film genre.
It grossed$ 927.6 million worldwide, making it the highest- grossing film of 2002 and the fourth highest- grossing film of all time at the time of its release.
" The Two Towers" is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential fantasy films ever made.
The film received numerous accolades; at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing, winning two: Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, For My Father or The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers?
Answer: For My Father