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1. The 66th Academy Awards, held in 1994, saw only the second woman ever nominated for the Best Director Award. Although Steven Spielberg took home that Oscar for "Schindler's List", our filmmaker did not go home empty handed; she picked up an award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for Film.
2. Kiwi actor Sam Neill starred in the British mini series "Reilly: Ace of Spies", which was also directed by a New Zealander. That director went on to make films such as "The Mask of Zorro", and its sequel, "The Legend of Zorro", as well as the James Bond film that saw Pierce Brosnan make his debut as 007; "GoldenEye".
3. Pierce Brosnan played James Bond four times, and in his first and last outings as 007, he was directed by a New Zealander. Which of these Kiwis oversaw Brosnan in "Die Another Day"?
4. The independent film "Whale Rider" shot our next filmmaker to international attention and earned its young star a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Named in 2005 among the "Top 100 People In Hollywood You Need To Know" by movie magazine "Fade In", her follow up film "North Country" also garnered its female lead an Oscar nomination.
5. No quiz on New Zealand filmmakers would be complete without this next director. Born on Halloween (October 31), his early films were darkly humorous horrors that are now considered some of the finest examples of "splatstick" around.
6. In 1984, "Vigil" became the first New Zealand film ever to be chosen for the Cannes Film Festival Competition. Fourteen years later its director made the visually stunning "What Dreams May Come".
7. Although born in Australia, this filmmaker entered the industry when he immigrated to New Zealand in 1965. One of the first New Zealand filmmakers to work in Hollywood, some of his better-known films include "Cocktail" and "Dantes Peak".
8. With a budget of $80 million, the writer of "The Truman Show" was told that it was too much of a risk for the studio to have him, as a novice, directing the film. So with the more acceptable budget of $20 million in mind, he wrote "Gattaca" and told the studio "either I will direct the film, or there will be no film".
9. When he was seventeen our next filmmaker began working with Peter Jackson as a storyboard artist for the 1992 movie "Braindead". Seventeen years later, Jackson showed his faith in him by giving him the directors chair for the remake of the classic film "The Dam Busters".
10. Another filmmaker with his roots in visual effects, this man shot to stardom with his directorial debut, "Shrek". Its sequel, "Shrek 2", was one of the highest grossing animated films of all time.
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