Peter King - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	1955
Place of Birth	United Kingdom (Eurasia, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Western Europe, Europe, Littlehampton Lifeboat Station)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Also know as	Peter â€˜Swordsâ€™ King, Peter Swords King, Peter Swords-King
Profession	Hair Designer, Make-Up Designer
Peter King is a British Oscar winning makeup artist who won at the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Makeup for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Which he shared with Richard Taylor. He was nominated again at the 2012 for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Besides bringing movie characters to life by way of make-up and hairstyling, Peter King, for the 13 dwarfs in the movie The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey, had to work on 1000 drawings before finalizing down to a single image. "We make the prosthetics, wigs, beards and then do a show-and-tell for each character in the film", was the remark made by Peter about his work. He is credited for his exemplary work of immortalizing characters like the King Kong and Marquis de Sade on celluloid. His other outstanding moveies include, Quills, Thunderbirds, Little Voice, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband and The Avengers. He also has won a few BAFTA Awards. He has worked on nearly 40 films since 1982.

Awards by Peter King

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter King.

2014

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2010

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	Nine

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair

Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	Quills

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Makeup	Quills
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	An Ideal Husband

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair	Velvet Goldmine

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