JamieSelkirk
- Editor
Jamie Selkirk is the Academy Award-winning editor of Return of the King, the final episode of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His working relationship with director Peter Jackson stretches from Jackson's first feature Bad Taste through to the present day. Selkirk helped found special effects company Weta Workshop, and Wellington's Camperdown Studios.
Screenography
Biography
Jamie Selkirk won an Academy Award for his editing of The Return of the King (2003), and followed it with another heavy hitter: King Kong. Selkirk has played a part in editing all of Peter Jackson's previous features, apart from Forgotten Silver. His CV also includes boy and turtle tale The Silent One, and episodes of landmark television dramas Winners & Losers and The Governor.
Awards
1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Best Editing - Film: for Heavenly Creatures
“...the effects were an integral part of the film and were required to put the audience into Tolkien's world, but the story was and should always be foremost in the editing process. ”