Philippa Boyens

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Philippa Boyens MNZM is a New Zealand screenwriter who cowrote the screenplay for Peter Jacksons film series The Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for which the trio won an Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004 Boyens worked with the same collaborators on the screenplay for Jacksons version of King Kong Following that movies completion the trio once again worked together on The Lovely Bones Jacksons film adaptation of Alice Sebolds novel of the same name which was released in 2009 She is also collaborating with Jackson Walsh and Guillermo del Toro on The Hobbit films which are scheduled for release in 2011 and 2012 Prior to turning to screenwriting with The Lord of the Rings Boyens was a playwright Boyens was a parttime student at the University of Auckland graduating with a BA in English and History in 1994 She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the university in 2006 She has three children daughter Phoebe Gittins and sons Calum Gittins both with actor Paul Gittins and Isaac Miller Calum starred as Haleth in The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippa Boyens licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia