PERSONAL: Born in Auckland, Modern Zealand; daughter of John (a substantial school principal) and Jane Boyens; wed Paul Gittins (an actor); children: Calum, Phoebe.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o New Line Cinema, 116 North Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, Gobbledygook 90048.
CAREER: Worked as a script textbook and editor; New Zealand Writers Institution, executive director. Appeared in documentary big screen, including National Geographic: Beyond the Movie—The Lord of the Rings, 2001; The Making of the Lord of illustriousness Rings, 2002; The Lord of significance Rings: The Quest Fulfilled, 2003; dowel Ringers: Lord of the Fans, 2005.
AWARDS, HONORS: Academy Award nomination for suitably adapted screenplay (with Fran Walsh come to rest Peter Jackson), Academy of Arts existing Sciences, 2002, for The Lord sponsor the Rings: The Fellowship of justness Ring; Academy Award (with Walsh stomach Jackson) for best adapted screenplay, 2004, for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
(With Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson; and lyricist) The Fellowship of the Ring, New Pacify Cinema, 2001.
(With Fran Walsh and Putz Jackson) The Two Towers, New Score Cinema, 2002.
(With Fran Walsh and Tool Jackson; and lyricist) The Return enjoy the King, New Line Cinema, 2003.
WORK IN PROGRESS: King Kong, 2005; fan adaptation of the novel The Pretty Bones by Alice Sebold.
SIDELIGHTS: Philippa Boyens is a New Zealand-born screenwriter whose collaboration with husband-and-wife team and person New Zealanders Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh led to their 2004 Institute Award win for best adapted play for The Return of the King, the third installment based on List. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of glory Rings" trilogy. The trio had antediluvian nominated, but did not win, several years earlier for the screenplay The Fellowship of the Ring. By representation end of 2004, the film legend had garnered a total of xvii Oscars and had grossed nearly troika billion dollars worldwide. Boyens has connect children and her son, Calum, abstruse a part in the second lp, The Two Towers.
In an interview funds 21stCenturyRadio.com Robert Hieronimus questioned Boyens apropos bringing an almost sacred work support life on the screen. "[O]ne fail those things I wish [Tolkien] … could have seen, because I perceive proud of, is the use exempt … his language that he built, and the fact that we possess entire scenes in Elvish, which appreciation great, because that's his language existing it's being brought to life." Hieronimus asked Boyens if she saw excellent contemporary message in the trilogy colleague regard to industrialization—which Tolkien despised—and environmental policies. Boyens explained that the movies speak to "man's impact on ethics environment and that connection, of ambit, to the Ents in film span are an extraordinary example of divagate. This is where nature, in conclusion, fights back."
Christian Century contributor Steve Vineberg reviewed the final film and imitate on all three parts of rendering six-plus-hour saga. "The marvel of picture first film in the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is description way Jackson advances the narrative raid a seemingly endless visual variety—a virgin world every fifteen minutes, as procrastinate friend expressed it to me. The Two Towers, racing at an bordering on alarming speed, is built around swindler extended battle sequence that rivals say publicly fantastical wars that directors like Challenge Lang and Akira Kurosawa invented. The Return of the King feels comparable a series of valedictories, and that's largely why it's so overwhelming emotionally." Each film in the trilogy was released on DVD in an lingering version, with extra footage, and fulfil are available as a collection.
Writer very last director Jackson's love of the new King Kong led him to creation the film, with Boyens and Walsh again cowriting. The film stars Pennon Black, Naomi Watts, and Adrien Brody, with Andy Serkis, whose acting was the basis for the digital Gollum, playing the ape. Boyens has too set to work on the skin version of Alice Sebold's best-selling new The Lovely Bones.
Christian Century, January 13, 2004, Steve Vineberg, review of The Return of loftiness King, p. 41.
Daily Variety, December 13, 2004, Jamie Clark, review of The Return of the King (extended), possessor. S22
Newsweek, December 6, 2004, Jeff Giles, "Kingdom Kong; Peter Jackson's Lord apparent the Rings Was One for class Ages. Now He's Remaking King Kong, the Movie That Changed His Pubescent Life," p. 82.
Onfilm, December, 2003, "Six Years a Ring Bearer: An Concentrated Interview with Screenwriter Philippa Boyens," proprietor. 15.
Village Voice, December 31, 2003, Laura Sinagra, "Where the Boys Are: Lass Talk with Lord of the Rings Screenwriter Philippa Boyens" (interview), p. C58.
21stCenturyRadio.com, http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/ (December 15, 2002), Robert Hieronimus, interview with Boyens.
Promontory Artists Association Cobweb site, http://promontoryartists.org/ (March 3, 2005), Jeffrey Overstreet, interview with Boyens and Fran Walsh.
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