The following is a list of New Zealand film makers.

International directors

Domestic directors

Producers

Philippa Campbell Philippa Campbell is a New Zealand film and television producer and the Literary Manager at the Auckland Theatre Company. Theatre Philippa Campbell began her career in the theatre as an actor and director in the 1980s. In 1981, she was involved i ...

Winston Cowie Winston Cowie is a Marine conservationist, author and film director. He is the Manager of Marine Policy at the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is a film director of nature documentaries, New Zealand author of discovery h ...

Ainsley Gardiner Ainsley Amohaere Gardiner is a film producer from New Zealand. Early life Gardiner was born in Palmerston North and grew up in the Wellington suburb of Wadestown, attending Wadestown Primary School. Her mother is former MP Pauline Gardiner ...

Libby Hakaraia Elizabeth Anne Hakaraia is a New Zealand film producer, director, and author. Biography Hakaraia was raised in Lower Hutt and started her broadcasting career at Radio Waikato when she was 17 years old. When she was 20, she moved to Radio ...

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Fran Walsh Dame Frances Rosemary Walsh (born 10 January 1959) is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer. The partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson, Walsh has contributed to all of their films since 1989: as co-writer since ''Meet the Feebles'', and a ...

Actors

New Zealand at the Academy Awards

New Zealand film makers have won a total of sixteen Oscars at the US Film Academy Awards from 41 nominations. Eleven wins were for work on the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. The first New Zealand nomination was in 1958 for Snows of Aorangi with New Zealand's first wins coming in 1994 for

The Piano ''The Piano'' is a 1993 historical romance film written and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin (in her first major acting role). The film focuses on a mute Sc ...

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Winners and nominees

Special effects

Richard Taylor, who is the head of Weta Workshop, has won a notable number of awards for his work on the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy and King Kong. Currently, he holds one of the largest Academy Award Collections. {{DEFAULTSORT:New Zealand film makers * Film Makers Lists of filmmakers

Filmmakers Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screenwritin ...