Clint from Moviehole.net writes: I had the opportunity to chat to Sean Astin today – about his work in the forthcoming Lord of the rings : two towers and even the impending Goonies 2. [More]
Month: February 2002
Frodo’s Girl continues her journal of the first Red Carpet tour of LOTR film locations in New Zealand. Today: Mt. Doom and the Hobbit Lodge! [More]
UPDATE: This is the correct link now.
I thought I would share with theonering.net my experience on the Red Carpet Movie Tour’s LOTR ultimate fantasy 12-day tour (http://www.redcarpet-tours.com). I’m on a small VIP tour of travel agents. I’ll send in updates as time and connectivity permit. This is the third installment. (Read the first installment here and the second here)
Feb 20th
Once again, we started out fairly early on a beautiful sunny morning. We started the day off with some actual New Zealand attractions that have nothing to do with middle earth. We saw some more geothermal activity (I tell you, boiling mud is just a pretty impressive thing, and kind of funny looking too), including a power plant where they harness geothermal activity to create energy – pretty nifty. Staying in the energy-generating theme, we headed off to Huka Falls – they aren’t tall, but boy are they powerful. Having witnessed enough non-LOTR things for the day, we took off down the Desert Road and stopped and Rangipo Plains. A short hike took us out onto the plains for a nice view of Mt. Doom.
Pretty dang cool huh? All the hills and mountains in this area are all volcanic (as with most all the rest in New Zealand) and the plains are full of pumice and other evidence of fairly active volcanoes. We made a short stop for lunch, before heading around to the other side of the park and up the slopes of Mt. Ruapehu. Let me tell you this is one awesome place. In the winter it is a ski area, but in the summer, the area is clear of snow and the rocky terrain is stunning this area was used for some different Mordor scenes, including some with Orc armies as well as some scenes with Frodo and Sam.
The end of our amazing day brought us back to Ohakune and The Hobbit Lodge. It turned out to be a delightful little motel, complete with a fabulous restaurant and bar. The food there would make Bilbo proud – perfectly delicious, and plenty of it. They even have steak with mushroom sauce. And the desserts are something to write home about. I thought I was getting a simple chocolate sunday, but it turned out to be a veritable masterpiece, and enough to easily feed two. It was the perfect hobbit ending to another brilliant day.
Tomorrow – Rangitikei River (River Anduin), Kapiti Coast (Pelannor Fields), and the lead Nazgul and his horse.
On the road to the Academy Awards, there is no better test of a films Oscar-winning potential then to win the coveted Best Picture at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. For the last three years, the film that won Best Picture at the BAFTAs went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, and this year TOR.n offer people all around the world to join our viewing party as the BAFTAs take place. Simply log into Barliman‘s Chatroom and slip into the room ‘#awardsparty’ to join in on the party. [More]
The following represents the categories for which Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award.
Film
Amelie
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge
Shrek
The David Lean Award
for achievement in Direction
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie)
Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings)
Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge)
Screenplay
(Adapted)
A. Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind)
H. Fielding/A. Davies/R. Curtis (Bridget Jones Diary)
Richard Eyre/Charles Wood (Iris)
F. Walsh/P. Boyens/P. Jackson (Lord of the Rings)
T. Elliott/T. Rossio/J. Stillman/R.S.H. Schulman (Shrek)
Performance
by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jim Broadbent (Iris)
Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)
Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings)
Kevin Spacey (The Shipping News)
Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
The Anthony Asquith Award
for achievement in Film Music
Yann Tiersen (Amelie)
Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings)
Craig Armstrong/Marius De Vries (Moulin Rouge)
Angelo Badalamenti (Mulholland Drive)
Harry Gregson-Williams/John Powell (Shrek)
Cinematography
Bruno Delbonnel (Amelie)
Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down)
Andrew Lesnie (Lord of the Rings)
Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
Donald M McAlpine (Moulin Rouge)
Production Design
Aline Bonetto (Amelie)
Stephen Altman (Gosford Park)
Stuart Craig (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
Grant Major (The Lord of the Rings)
Catherine Martin (Moulin Rouge)
Costume Design
Jenny Beavan (Gosford Park)
Judianna Makovsky (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
Ngila Dickson/Richard Taylor (Lord of the Rings)
Catherine Martin/Angus Strathie (Moulin Rouge)
Colleen Atwood (Planet of the Apes)
Editing
Hervé Schneid (Amelie)
Pietro Scalia (Black Hawk Down)
John Gilbert (Lord of the Rings)
Jill Bilcock (Moulin Rouge)
Mary Sweeney (Mulholland Drive)
Sound
C. Munro/P. Hallberg/M. Minkler/M. Nettinga/K. Baker (Black Hawk Down)
J. Midgley/J. Joseph/R. Merrin/G. Daniel/A. Daniel (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
D. Farmer/H. Peek/C. Boyes/G. Creagh/M. Semanick/E. Van der Ryn/M. Hopkins (Lord of the Rings)
A. Nelson/A. Behlmer/R. Savage/G. Sics/G. Vanderhope/A. Gray (Moulin Rouge)
A. Nelson/A. Behlmer/W. Stateman/L. Bender (Shrek)
Achievement In Special Visual Effects
D. Muren/S. Farrar/M. Lantieri (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
R. Legato/N. Davis/J. Richardson/R. Guyett/J. Berney (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
J.Rygiel/R.Taylor/A. Funke/R. William Cook/M. Stetson (Lord of the Rings)
C. Godfrey/A. Brown/N. McGuinness/B. Cox (Moulin Rouge)
Ken Bielenberg (Shrek)
Make Up/Hair
S. Jaye/J. Archibald (Gosford Park)
A. Knight/E. Fennell/N. Dudman (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
P. Owen/P. King/R. Taylor (Lord of the Rings)
M. Silvi/A. Signoretti (Moulin Rouge)
R. Baker/T. G/K. Tsuji (Planet of the Apes)
For more information, visit the British Academy of Film and Television Arts website at www.bafta.org
As soon was Fellowship of the Ring was released into theaters around the world on December 19th 2001, movie fans and Tolkien fans alike compiled their lists of the mistakes Peter Jackson made in the filming of his three hour epic. However, these ‘mistakes’ have been hotly disputed as to whether they are really mistakes, to the extent that the New York Daily News even wrote an article on it. This weekend the Hall of Fire crew discuss the mistakes in The Fellowship of the Ring, and how they can be explained.. [More]