Lee Tamahori.

Lee Tamahori (b. June 17, 1950), is best known as a film director although he got his start as a commercial artist and photographer in the late 1970s.

Tamahori is of Māori ancestry on his father’s side and of British ancestry on his mother’s. His break as a filmmaker came with Once Were Warriors (1994), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand. He then moved to Hollywood and directed the period thriller Mulholland Falls (1996), although this was not received well critically or commercially. This was followed by the successful wilderness film The Edge (1997) and Die Another Day (2002), the twentieth James Bond film. He also directed numerous episodes of television shows, in particular an episode of The Sopranos during its second season.