One of the first things that we realise while scrolling through the comments section of the YouTube video showing Peter Jackson winning the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the fact that almost everyone—including me, and especially the advocates of fantasy films—acknowledge rather unanimously that during its year, none of the other nominations could even come close to challenging it for the ‘Best Picture’.
Source: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-peter-jackson-changed-the-face-of-cinema/