Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (The Hollywood Reporter) Kua mate a Andrew Lesnie, te kaiwhakaahua kiriata toa o Oscar, i neke atu i te tekau tau e mahi tahi ana me te kaiwhakahaere a Peter Jackson i runga i nga kiriata e ono o te "Lord of the Rings" me te "Hobbit". E 59 ōna tau. Ko te tangata whenua o Sydney, i mahi tahi hoki me te New Zealander Jackson i runga i te whakahoutanga o "King Kong" (2005) me "The Lovely Bones" (2009), i mate i te mate ngakau i te Mane. I kii tetahi kaikorero mai i te Australian Cinematographers Society: "Kua whakatupatohia matou mo te matenga ohorere o Andrew", me te kii ka tukuna e tona whanau he korero mana i muri mai. I mohiotia mo te whakataurite i te hangarau me nga whakaaro toi, i koperea hoki e Lesnie te "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011), na Rupert Wyatt i whakahaere. Kua oti i te kaihanga pikitia te whakaoti i te The Water Diviner, te kiriata tuatahi a Russell Crowe, he tangata nō Aotearoa anō hoki. I whakarewahia taua pikitia i te Paraire i roto i nga whare pikitia o U.S. I kii a Crowe i runga i a Twitter: "He purongo whakamataku mai i te kaainga. Kua mate te rangatira o te marama, te tohunga nui a Andrew Lesnie". I riro a Lesnie i tana Oscar mo tana mahi i te tuatahi o te "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001). He mea whakamiharo tōna pūkenga ki te whiwhi i te āhua tika o ngā wāhi kino rawa o te kaituhi a J.R.R. Tolkien. Mo te kiriata "Lord of the Rings" tuatahi, ka toro atu a Jackson ki a Lesnie i muri i tana kitenga i tana mahi i runga i te "Babe" (1995) me tana 1998 e whai ake nei. Ko aua pikitia o Ahitereiria, e pā ana ki te poaka me ētahi atu kararehe, he tino whakamiharo ngā pānga whakaata, ā, he tino angitu i te whare tapere huri noa i te ao. "Kāore au i mahi tahi, i tūtaki rānei ki a ia i mua, engari i tāia e ia ngā kiriata Babe, ā, i whakaaro ahau he mīharo rātau, te huarahi i whakamahia ai e ia te whakamarama o muri me te rā me te marama tūturu hei waihanga i tētahi pānga tino mīharo", i kī a Jackson i tētahi uiuinga i te tau 2004. "Kāore hoki a Babe i nui ake i te ora i te mea i hiahiatia e au. "No reira i te wa i tiimata ai te rapu mo nga DP i te timatanga o te tau 1999, i whakatau ahau kia whiwhi i tetahi DP o Ahitereiria, o Niu Tireni ranei, na te mea kua whakamahia e raatau ki te hanga kiriata", ka haere tonu a Jackson. "He rerekē te āhua o ia whenua,...
Kua mate a Andrew Lesnie, kaitango whakaahua toa Oscar. E mōhiotia ana ia mō "Te Ariki o ngā Ringa", "Te Hobbit" me "Babe"