The New Year's Honours list should be hitting at any moment, but just like New Zealand welcomes the next year in earlier than most of us, so their gong announcements are also advanced - and Peter Jackson is getting a knighthood.   He blagged the award for "services to film", not to mention the massive boost to the country's tourism that Lord Of The Rings has provided in the years since the trilogy's release. Oh, and the huge filmmaking apparatus he's built there.    Thanks to the island nation's status as a member of the Commonwealth, his honour will be fully recognised by the Queen. No idea when or even if he'll be stopping by the palace to pick up his honour - will he have time between producing The Hobbit and working on the thousand other projects he has developing?    Oh, and talking of film folk up for awards, Patrick Stewart has also received the knighthood treatment. The search starts now for a nickname along the lines of Ian McKellen's Serena...

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Sir Gollum of Precious
Now we know what Gollum's precious really was, a fucking knighthood and they gave it to the hairy ugly Jackson! Can't have been much competition in New Zealand for this award. ... Read More BenTramer About me
00:53, 05 January 2010 | Report This Post
Re: Cliff126
Australasia is not a real thing, it is just a term used when discussing an an appromite culteral area. The continent is Australia and only comprises of mainland Australia. New Zealand does not belong to a continent. However, that's using the most common defintion of continents, if you want to discuss continental shelves, that's an entirely different storey. ... Read More waltgamble About me
06:30, 03 January 2010 | Report This Post
RE: Re: Knight of Fury, and everyone else
Peter Jackson should be knighted for making Braindead and only for that lol ... Read More Edward Nygma About me
17:26, 02 January 2010 | Report This Post
Re: Knight of Fury, and everyone else
OK, clearup. New Zealand is part of the continent Australasia, not Australia. And good on Peter Jackson, he rightly deserves it! ... Read More cliff126 About me
09:52, 02 January 2010 | Report This Post
RE: Correction
While I'm not a huge fan of the knighthood style honours, I think that Peter Jackson really has earned recognition for his on-going contribution to film as well as the boost his works given to the industry in New Zealand. ... Read More Chris Smithee About me
18:14, 01 January 2010 | Report This Post
Correction
It did say 'continent' early on, but it was corrected to 'island nation'. At least they spotted and changed it. ... Read More Withnail About me
13:04, 01 January 2010 | Report This Post
@ Knight of Fury Erm Australia is a continent, its the smallest continent in the world, but still a continent....its called the Australian Continent funnily enough. @Wizard007 I've read this article 3 times and nowhere does it say NZ is a continent...did you even read the article before you started talking out of your arse? ... Read More Dave25 About me
19:08, 31 December 2009 | Report This Post
RE: Continent
ok, so what continent is New Zealand in? ... Read More Knight of Fury About me
18:25, 31 December 2009 | Report This Post
Continent
New Zealand is an island nation, Australia is a nation and a continent to itself, which is unique. ... Read More waltgamble About me
15:41, 31 December 2009 | Report This Post
RE: Continent
Isn't the whole of the continent that is New Zealand, Austrailia, and the various smaller islands part of the Commonwealth? (I'm Irish, so I'm not sure) It seems to me that the writer is only guilty of not being clear, but it is not a factual error, in the strictest sense. ... Read More colmshan1990 About me
14:45, 31 December 2009 | Report This Post
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