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• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in December 2001, and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 2001.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was released in December 2002
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released in December 2003, and won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2003.

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Facts and figures about the trilogy

• Amount of film shot during production: Over 6 million feet
• Swords, axes, shields and makeup prosthetics created: 48,000
• Background actors cast: 20,602
• Costumes produced by the wardrobe department: 19,000
• New Zealand cricket fans enlisted to create the Orc army's grunts: 10,000
• Behind-the-scenes crew members: 2,400 at the height of production
• Pairs of prosthetic Hobbit feet created: 1,600
• Most real horses in one scene: 250
• Computer special-effects artists employed: 180
• Total speaking roles: 114
• Locations in New Zealand used as backdrops: 100
• Tailors, cobblers, designers, et al. in the wardrobe department: 50
• Actors trained to speak fictional dialects and languages: 30
• Total years of development for all three movies: 7
• Combined running time of the series: 680 minutes (11 hours and 20 minutes)
• Combined worldwide box-office gross: US$2,916,544,743 (source)

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Academy Awards

If all three movies are counted as one, the trilogy was nominated for 30 Academy Awards, of which it won 17.[1]

The Awards were as follows (A Win is marked by a "W"):

Art Direction [Fellowship, Two Towers, King (W)]
Cinematography [Fellowship (W)]
Costume Design [Fellowship, King (W)]
Directing [Fellowship, King (W)]
Film Editing [Fellowship, Two Towers, King (W)]
Makeup [Fellowship (W), King (W)]
Music (Original Score) [Fellowship (W), King (W)]
Music (Original Song) [Fellowship: "May It Be", King: "Into the West" (W)]
Best Picture [Fellowship, Two Towers, King (W)]
Sound [Fellowship, Two Towers]
Sound Editing (Two Towers)
Sound Mixing [King (W)]
Supporting Actor [Fellowship: Ian McKellen ("Gandalf")]
Visual Effects [Fellowship (W), Two Towers (W), King (W)]
Writing (Previously Produced or Published) [Fellowship, King (W)]
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External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about:

The Lord of the Rings (movies)

• Official site of the films

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