<P> During its home video release, King Kong sold over $100 million worth of DVDs in the largest six - day performance in Universal Studios history . King Kong sold more than 7.6 million DVDs, accumulating nearly $194 million worth of sales numbers in the domestic market alone . As of June 25, 2006, King Kong has generated almost $38 million from DVD rental gross . In February 2006, TNT / TBS and ABC paid Universal Studios $26.5 million for the television rights to the film . </P> <P> King Kong received positive reviews from critics . On aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 261 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "Featuring state - of - the - art special effects, terrific performances, and a majestic sense of spectacle, Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong is a potent epic that's faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original ." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A --" on an A+ - to - F scale . </P> <P> It was placed on the Top Ten lists of several critics, with Roger Ebert giving it four stars, and listed it as 2005's eighth best film . The film received four Academy Award nominations, for Visual Effects, Sound Mixing (Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek), Sound Editing, and Production Design, winning all but the last . Entertainment Weekly called the depiction of Kong the most convincing computer - generated character in film in 2005 . Some criticized the film for retaining racist stereotypes that had been present in the 1933 film, though it was not suggested that Jackson had done this intentionally . King Kong ranks 450th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time . The Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw said that it "certainly equals, and even exceeds, anything Jackson did in Lord of the Rings ." However, Charlie Brooker, also of The Guardian, gave a negative review in which he describes the film as "sixteen times more overblown and histrionic than necessary". </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Award </Th> <Th> Subject </Th> <Th> Nominee </Th> <Th> Result </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Academy Awards </Td> <Td> Best Sound Editing </Td> <Td> Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Sound Mixing </Td> <Td> Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins, and Ethan Van der Ryn </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Visual Effects </Td> <Td> Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Art Direction </Td> <Td> Grant Major, Dan Hennah, and Simon Bright </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> British Academy Film Awards </Td> <Td> Best Special Visual Effects </Td> <Td> Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Production Design </Td> <Td> Grant Major </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Sound </Td> <Td> Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins, and Ethan Van der Ryn </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Golden Globe Awards </Td> <Td> Best Director </Td> <Td> Peter Jackson </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Original Score </Td> <Td> James Newton Howard </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Saturn Award </Td> <Td> Best Fantasy Film </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Director </Td> <Td> Peter Jackson </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Writing </Td> <Td> Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Actress </Td> <Td> Naomi Watts </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Costume </Td> <Td> Terry Ryan </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Make - Up </Td> <Td> Richard Taylor, Gino Acevedo, Dominie Till, and Peter King </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Special Effects </Td> <Td> Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Visual Effects Society </Td> <Td> Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Motion Picture </Td> <Td> Joe Letteri, Eileen Moran, Christian Rivers, and Eric Saindon </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture </Td> <Td> Andy Serkis, Christian Rivers, Atsushi Sato, and Guy Williams </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture </Td> <Td> Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, Matt Aitken, and Charles Tait </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture </Td> <Td> Erik Winquist, Michaell Pangrazio, Steve Cronin, and Suzanne Jandu </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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