Peter Jackson has been knighted in his native New Zealand.
The moviemaker received the honour at a ceremony in his home town of Wellington on Wednesday (28Apr10), after the knighthood was sanctioned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who is New Zealand's head of state.
And Jackson was delighted to receive his official title as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
He says, "I feel incredibly humbled. The truth is, making movies is not a solo effort - it involves hundreds of people, thousands of people, so I feel as though I'm accepting it on behalf of a huge industry."
Since his Lord of the Rings success Peter Jackson has made just two movies as he is concentrating on producing.
But he was back in the director's chair at the beginning of the year with an adaptation Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones.
He has penned The Hobbit script, a movie which he will executive produce, and he is currently working on The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn with Steven Spielberg.
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