Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Hicks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process
2023
Director, Writer
Sparked by the impending 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning film Shine, this documentary explores the power of the musical brain. Featuring...
My Name's Ben Folds – I Play Piano
2023
Director, Writer
A symphonic concert spectacle featuring rock maestro Ben Folds with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, combining the power of orchestral grandeur with t...
King on Screen
2023
as Self
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...
Fallen
2016
Director
Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to who...
Highly Strung
2016
Director
"Highly Strung" A story of passion...of obsession...and possession A journey into a rarefied world of elusive tones evoked by horsehair on catgut, of ...
The Lucky One
2012
Director
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
The Boys Are Back
2009
Director
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a pre...
Capturing Reality
2008
as Self
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the worl...
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2007
Director
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a...
No Reservations
2007
Director
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she beco...
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
Director
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
Screenplay, Director
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...
Shine
1996
Director, Story
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Sebastian and the Sparrow
1988
Director, Writer
The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Se...
Call Me Mr. Brown
1985
Director
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extort...
Freedom
1982
Director
Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blamin...
Final Cut
1980
First Assistant Director
A glossy thriller about a show-business tycoon with a shady background, and a young documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend who are making a film abo...
Dawn!
1979
Third Assistant Director
Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Money Movers
1978
Third Assistant Director
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
Down the Wind
1975
Director
A young photographer Simon Jess (David Cameron) is given an assignment to shoot some backgrounds for a fashion display in the Snowy Mountains.