The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

Peter Jackson closes his Tolkien trilogy with armies massing at the gates of Minas Tirith and two hobbits crawling toward a volcano carrying the fate of the world. Elijah Wood and Sean Astin take Frodo and Sam into Mordor while Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn finally claims a throne he spent two films refusing and Ian McKellen's Gandalf holds a besieged city together. It won every Academy Award it was nominated for, eleven in all.