FranWalsh
- Writer
- Producer
Fran Walsh is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film producer and musician. She has collaborated with her partner Peter Jackson on all his films since Meet the Feebles (1989), and was nominated for her first Oscar after co-writing Heavenly Creatures (1994). In 2004, Walsh shared three Oscar wins for her work on the final episode of the Lord of the Rings.
Screenography
Biography
Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer Fran Walsh prefers to remain in the background, but she is a key factor in partner Peter Jackson's Wellywood empire.
Walsh attended Victoria University of Wellington, majoring in English Literature, and graduating in 1981. During this period she also played in bands Naked Spots Dance and punk group The Wallsockets.
Awards
2019 Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For services to film
2005 Grammy Awards
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media (shared with Howard Shore and Annie Lennox): for 'Into the West' (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
“I think that we both have a good understanding of structure, which helps ... I'm obviously very visually oriented, and Fran is very good on dialogue and character, so we complement each other quite well.”