Peter Swords King

Peter King born 1955 also known as Peter Swords King is a British Oscarwinning makeup artist who won the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Makeup for The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King He shared the award with filmmaker Richard Taylor He was nominated again at the 2012 Academy Awards for The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Besides bringing movie characters to life by way of makeup and hairstyling King for the 13 dwarves in the movie The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey had to work on 1000 drawings before finalising down to a single image We make the prosthetics wigs beards and then do a showandtell for each character in the film was Peters remark about his work He is credited for his exemplary work of immortalising characters like King Kong and Marquis de Sade on celluloid His other movies include Quills Thunderbirds Little Voice The Importance of Being Earnest An Ideal Husband and The Avengers King has also won several BAFTA Awards He has worked on nearly 40 films since 1982 King is artistic director at Bath Academy of Media Makeup a private school for makeup artistry in media and fashion Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter King makeup artist licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia