Ring captures record

   (KRT) The 76th annual Academy Awards was a coronation for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
   The third in Jackson’s epic trilogy of hobbits and wizards came into the ceremony with 11 nominations and went home with 11 awards, including best picture.
   The New Zealand-made phenom, which has earned more than $1 billion worldwide, made Oscar history by tying 11-time winners Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997).
   It was the first year since Titanic that the big box-office movies such as Return of the King and Finding Nemo collected so much Academy Award Oscar gold.
   Among the awards Return of the King picked up at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre were director, adapted screenplay, score and song, costumes and film editing.