The Filmmakers
The Filmmakers
Prior to working with director Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Dan Hennah was the art director for Jackson's The Frighteners. Other feature film credits as art director include Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, White Water Summer and Savage Islands; as supervising art director on The Rescue; as production designer on Mesmerised and as dressing prop on Mutiny on the Bounty. He was recently honored with an Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

As a production designer for television, Hennah's credits include the Cloud 9 television series "The Tribe," "Twist in the Tale," "William Tell" and "Treasure Island." Further television credits find Hennah as associate designer on "99-1," art director on "Heart of the High Country" and production designer on the movie-of-the-week "Adrift." Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Hennah went on to study architecture at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Architecture. Hennah's first position in the film industry was as a production assistant on the film Prisoner.

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