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Looking back, it’s hard to imagine the trilogy without Serkis in it, but he nearly wasn’t. As far as Serkis is concerned, the Academy just didn’t know what to do with an actor in a mo-cap role. In fact, none of the actors took home the gold. Sadly, Serkis was overlooked by the Academy when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was showered with awards in 2004. It wasn’t until The Two Towers the following year when this character would really get his time in the spotlight, brought to life with a combination of Serkis’ now-iconic performance and cutting edge motion-capture suit.

Elijah Wood was Frodo Baggins, Sean Astin was Samwise Gamgee, Viggo Mortensen was Aragorn…it was good times.Īndy Serkis also showed up as the voice of Gollum, a pitiful creature bend and twisted by the One Ring who follows Frodo wherever he goes.

Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books were finally treated to the splashy big screen adaptation they deserved when Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters.

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