When new employees join Weta Workshop, they are taken to a conference room adorned with five Oscars, four of which were won for their work on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. New hires can hold an Oscar, but this comes with a superstition that it curses them from ever winning one themselves, so few accept. While Weta Workshop has a prestigious history in film, its fledgling Game Studio is still striving to reach the same level of recognition.
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