Peter Jackson’s film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards. At the 76th Academy Awards, held in 2004, it won every category in which it was nominated.
The film won Best Picture, becoming the first fantasy film to receive that award. It also won Best Director for Peter Jackson, as well as awards for adapted screenplay, art direction, costume design, film editing, makeup, original score, original song, sound mixing, and visual effects.
Its 11 victories matched the record for the most Academy Awards won by a single film at that time. The other films with 11 wins were Ben-Hur and Titanic. The Return of the King was nominated in 11 categories, so its perfect record is an important detail behind the total.
The movie is the third installment in Jackson’s film trilogy based on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, though its award total concerns the film itself rather than the trilogy as a whole.