Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the
Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the
Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama
Heavenly Creatures (1994), the horror comedy
The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film
King Kong (2005), the World War I documentary film
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) and the documentary
The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He is the fourth-highest-grossing film director of all-time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.