Peter Swords King
Peter King (born 1955), also known as Peter Swords King, is a British Oscar-winning 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 make-up and hairstyling, King, for the 13 dwarves in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, had to work on 1,000 drawings before finalising 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 Peter's 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 (make-up artist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (30)
Supergirl
Superman
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Into the Woods
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Love & Other Drugs
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
The Golden Compass
I'm Not There
Youth Without Youth
King Kong
Nanny McPhee
Beyond the Sea
Thunderbirds
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quills
An Ideal Husband
Velvet Goldmine
The Avengers
Little Voice
The Tango Lesson
