Sir Richard Taylor co-founder of Weta Workshop

Sir Richard Taylor, knighted in 2010 and named New Zealand's Man of the Year in 2012, has won five of the six Academy Awards he was nominated for. He co-founded Weta Workshop with his now wife Tanya Rodger and is responsible for the miniatures (bigitures), costumes, prosthetics, props and weapons on screen in Peter Jackson's LORD OF THE RINGS film trilogy. His crew also contributed mightily to THE HOBBIT trilogy of films as well as many other TV series and movies, including miniatures for BLADE RUNNER 2049. He was influenced by Tolkien as a child and is a champion of New Zealand, art and creativity.

Here he speaks about his work here on The Tolkien Podcast.

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