Peter Jackson is the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he is a New Zealand based film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is 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. But some of the other famous movies that he has directed are Heavenly Creatures, King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia and also was the producer for The Adventures of Tintin.