{"id":1664,"date":"2006-03-05T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/05\/weta-wizards-compete-for-more-oscars\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T01:51:39","slug":"weta-wizards-compete-for-more-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/05\/1664-weta-wizards-compete-for-more-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Weta wizards compete for more Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">New Zealand&#8217;s Weta wizards compete for more Oscars in tomorrow&#8217;s 78th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. But four-time Oscar winner and Weta Workshop chief Richard Taylor, who flew to Los Angeles on Friday, says King Kong&#8217;s Naomi Watts also deserved a nomination for best actress. And he hopes that actors who play digital characters will one day be recognised in best actor categories. Watts played heroine Ann Darrow opposite the digitally-created gorilla played by actor Andy Serkis, who was Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings triology. Peter Jackson&#8217;s $US207 million ($NZ315.21 million) blockbuster of King Kong has five Oscar nominations for best achievement in makeup, art direction, achievement in sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/0,2106,3593929a1870,00.html\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Weta wizards compete for more Oscars in tomorrow&#8217;s 78th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. But four-time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8,14,10,130,91,74,167,77,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serkis","category-production-crew-news","category-events","category-lotr-cast-news","category-old-main-news","category-events-other","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","category-taylor","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}