The Hobbit: Part 2 is a 2012 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson.
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies... beginning with Bad Taste before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures , for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year. His films also include Meet the Feebles , Braindead , Forgotten Silver , The Frighteners , King Kong , The Lovely Bones , and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again . He is also the producer of District 9 and The Adventures of Tintin . Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002.more
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for... The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979. He has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 2 July 2008., a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. Shore is a three-time winner of the Academy Award, and has also won three Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards. He is the uncle of film composer Ryan Shore. Shore serves on the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Berklee College of Music. Shore was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bernice and Mac Shore. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute.more
New Zealand is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the... Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface. Polynesians settled New Zealand in 1250–1300 CE and developed a distinctive Māori culture, and Europeans first made contact in 1642 CE.more