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NIGEL DICK - Director Favourite
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Award winning, British born, film-maker Nigel Dick has directed over 300 music videos and more than 25 documentaries & feature films. He has won 3 MTV awards, 2 Billboard Awards and 3 MVPA awards. His videos have been nominated for a further twenty- one MTV awards, twenty-six Much Music Awards, a Grammy and won one Brit Award. His many personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award. In his career Nigel has been responsible for some of the most influential videos in music video history: SWEET CHILD O' MINE, WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, PARADISE CITY by Guns n' Roses; CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA by Oasis, BELIEVE by Cher and OOPS I DID IT AGAIN by Britney Spears. In October 2007 two of Nigel's videos, WONDERWALL by Oasis and BABY ONE MORE TIME by Britney Spears, were voted into the top 15 music videos of all time in the United Kingdom. Recent video hits include GIVE by LeAnn Rimes, THE LAST GOODBYE by David Cook, THIS AFTERNOON by Nickelback, STICKWITU by Pussycat Dolls, NOT A LOVE SONG by Wonderland, & LOSE MY MIND by The Wanted. In
addition the enormous list of artists Nigel has worked with includes: The
Backstreet Boys, Toni Braxton, Sheryl Crow, Dashboard Confessional, Def
Leppard, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Enrique
Iglesias, Il Divo, Elton John, Ricky Martin, John Mayer, Paul McCartney,
NSync, Ozzy Osbourne, R.E.M., Rod Stewart, Sting and Tina
Turner. It has been calculated that the videos he has directed have helped
to sell in excess of 200 million records. Nigel trained as an architect before pursuing a career in the record business where he worked for hot, independent label Stiff Records and the powerful corporate Polygram before starting his directing career and moving to Los Angeles, where he stepped off the plane and immediately started shooting his first feature, PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS , starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam. In the mid 80's Nigel co-founded Propaganda Films. Over the next few years the company would become the hottest commercial and video production company in town before Nigel sold his share of the company to his old bosses at Polygram. In recognition of its groundbreaking place in the history of music video the MVPA awarded Nigel and the other founders (David Fincher, Greg Gold, Dominic Senna, Steve Golin & Joni Sighvatsson) Lifetime Achievement Awards in April 2000. In 2000 Nigel directed the first ever made-for-MTV movie, 2GETHER, which was watched by 23 million viewers and spawned a TV series and a top 40 soundtrack album which contains three songs he co-wrote. He subsequently directed SEEING DOUBLE which became 'Britain's most successful film of 2003' (The Guardian). In 2007 Nigel completed MILLAR'S TALE , an acclaimed short documentary about former world champion cyclist David Millar's two-year suspension from international competition after his conviction for using performance enhancing drugs. ("...a revealing look at the not-so-glamorous side of a pro cyclist’s life." - Bicycling.com). MILLAR'S TALE was an official entry at the 2008 New York Bicycle Film Festival. In the
Spring of 2008 the E! Network announced that Nigel had been hired as
Co-exec Producer on, PAM: GIRL ON THE LOOSE an observational
documentary series, that featured the iconic Pamela Anderson and starred
Kathy Griffin, Hugh Hefner, magician Criss Angel and photographer
David LaChapelle. Later that year he shot the Tour de France for the
Sundance Channel documentary BLOOD SWEAT & GEARS which aired
in June 2009. Nigel
has written eight screenplays the most recent of which is an adaptation of
Nick Duerden's hip thriller SIDEWALKING which is currently in
pre-production. Also in production are two documentaries:
IN SEARCH OF THE LANTERNE ROUGE - a film that follows the last
man round the world's most difficult bicycle race and BERLIN CALLING
- a historical journey that starts with one man's escape
from the Holocaust and concludes with his daughter shaving her head and
buying her first Clash album. Professional enquiries please click
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