Peter King (born 1955), also known as Peter Swords King, is a British

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-winning

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who won at the

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Academy Awards for Best Makeup for the film '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''. He shared the award with filmmaker Richard Taylor. He was nominated again at the

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Academy Awards for '' The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey''. Besides bringing movie characters to life by way of make-up and hairstyling, Peter King, for the 13 dwarves in the movie ''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'', had to work on 1,000 drawings before finalizing down to a single image. "We make the prosthetics, wigs, beards and then do a show-and-tell for each character in the film", was the remark made by Peter about his work. He is credited for his exemplary work of immortalizing characters like the

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and

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on celluloid. His other movies include '' Quills'', '' Thunderbirds'' '' Little Voice'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. King has also won several

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s. He has worked on nearly 40 films since 1982. King is artistic director at

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, which is a private school for makeup artistry within media and fashion.

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