Lee Tamahori (Maori). The internationally acclaimed Once Were Warriors (1995), Lee Tamahori's first feature film, an intense exploration of a Maori family, received the Australian Film Institute's Best Foreign Film Award in 1995. Son of a Maori father and a British mother, Tamahori started out as a photographer and commercial artist and began making television commercials in the 1980s. These have won television awards internationally�a Mobius (US), Facts (Australia), and Axis (New Zealand). Tamahori made his American directorial debut with Mulholland Falls (1996), starring Nick Nolte and Melanie Griffith, and directed the recent James Bond thriller Die Another Day (2002).