Peter Jackson

1h 31m

Shot over four years of weekends with friends. Jackson plays two roles and did the effects in his mother's kitchen.

1h 37m

The Muppets, if they were addicts. Deliberately repellent and not for most people.

1h 44m

Released as Dead Alive in America. Still one of the bloodiest films ever made, and very funny.

1h 39m

A true 1954 murder case, and Kate Winslet's debut. The film that got him taken seriously.

1h 50m

Michael J. Fox as a fraudulent ghost hunter. The dry run for large-scale digital effects.

2h 58m

Three films shot at once over 438 days. This is the one that proved it could work.

2h 59m

Helm's Deep, and Gollum — the first fully motion-captured performance to carry a film.

3h 21m

Eleven Oscars from eleven nominations. Nothing has matched that sweep since.

3h 7m

The remake he had wanted to make since he was nine. Overlong, and the last hour is extraordinary.

2h 15m

A murdered girl narrating from an afterlife rendered in CG. His clearest misfire.

2h 49m

One short book stretched to three films, on a schedule he inherited weeks before shooting.

2h 41m

The best of the three, largely because of Smaug himself.

2h 24m

Essentially one continuous battle. The shortest film he has made since 1996.