Minister of Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson has recruited world-renowned New Zealand film director Peter Jackson to lead the upcoming review of the Film Commission.

Mr Jackson is known internationally for his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which won him best picture and best director along a cavalcade of other awards. He is currently working on an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s book, The Lovely Bones.

He is best known in New Zealand for films like Heavenly Creatures, and B-grade splatterfest Braindead and black comedy Meet the Feebles.