 The final day of filming on the trilogy actually happened over a  month after this movie was theatrically released, and three weeks  after the 2004 Academy Awards. Peter Jackson (I) (qv) arranged to  film one final shot of skulls on the floor in the tunnel of the  Paths of the Dead, which was included in the Extended Edition of  ROTK. He thought it was funny to be doing filming on a movie that  had already won the Best Picture Oscar.