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Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953), known as Scott, is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of Shine, the biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Scott Hicks. Director: Shine. Hicks was born in Uganda and lived in Kenya, just outside Nairobi, until the age of ten. His family then moved, first to England and, when he was 14, on to Adelaide, Australia.
Scott Hicks. Director: Shine. Hicks was born in Uganda and lived in Kenya, just outside Nairobi, until the age of ten. His family then moved, first to England and, when he was 14, on to Adelaide, Australia. Hicks graduated from Flinders University of South Australia (BA Honors) in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997.
Shine is a 1996 Australian biographical psychological drama film directed by Scott Hicks from a screenplay by Jan Sardi, based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions.
Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is a film director from Australia. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award.
Scott Hicks is an Australian director, best known for his movie Shine (1996). He turned 70 on March 4, 2023. Here are the feature-length movies directed by him.
May 7, 2012 · It had already been done six times before over the last 13 years, but two-time Academy Award-nominated director/writer Scott Hicks ( Shine) wanted to do something different with a film adapted...
Scott Hicks may refer to: Scott Hicks (basketball) (born 1966), American former college basketball coach. Scott Hicks (director) (born 1953), Australian film director and screenwriter.
Australian writer-producer-director Scott Hicks enjoyed a lengthy career alternating between smaller dramatic films, informative documentaries and mainstream Hollywood features.
Mar 13, 2011 · Performance Anxiety: Shine. (Scott Hicks, 1996) Australian cinema rarely embraces the bold, hyperbolic flourish of full-blown melodrama; our family melodramas tend to remain grounded in a realist aesthetic (1). As one of the most successful films of the 1990s (2), Shine remains a potent exception to this tendency.
