Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and it s magical powers can be destroyed and never possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson s epic trilogy that redefined fantasy filmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien s Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards and earned 13 total nominations including Best Picture.