Scott Hicks is a realizer and scenario writer Australia N born on March 4th 1953 in Uganda.

Biography

source: Hello Movies

Born in Uganda from English father and Scottish mother, Scott Hicks passes its childhood to Kenya, close to Nairobi. At 10 years, it settles with its family in England, and as of the 14 years age, it moves in Adelaïde, in Australia. It is in Flinders University off South Australia that it is impassioned for the cinema and the German expressionnism.

Consequently, Scott Hicks works like assistant-realizer on many films like The Club (1980) of Bruce Beresford. In parallel, it puts in scene the documentary ones and a first feature-length film in 1975, entitled Down the wind .

In the Eighties, it carries out two feature-length films with small budget: Freedom (1982), a road movie with teenagers and Cal me Mr. Brown (1986). In 1988 Sebastian and the sparrow follows, of which he writes the scenario and which he produces. This film tells the history of two children, resulting one from an easy medium and the other of a poor medium, which decide to exchange their respective lives.

Since 1986, Scott Hicks considers the life of the pianist except standards David Helfgott by developing during long years a feature-length film entitled Shine . The film is born in 1996 and gains an enormous success. Revelation of the Festival of Independent film of Sundance, it obtains seven nominations with the Oscar (of which that of best film, the best realizer and the best original screenplay, Geoffrey Rush seeing itself decreeing the supreme reward for its service), five nominations with the Golden Globe, a nomination in Directors Guild off America, a quotation with the National Board off Review under better film and nine Australian Film Institute Awards, of which those of better film and better realizer.

It is in September 1995, during the post-production of Shine that Scott Hicks reads the best-seller of David Guterson, Snow fell on the Cedars . It then decides to adapt to the screen this novel which treats internment of the Japanese citizens in American camps during the Second world war. Snow fell on the cedars is worth with the chief operator Robert Richardson a quotation with the Oscar of best photography in 2000.

In 2001, Scott Hicks adapts to the cinema another novel, this time writes by Stephen King. It is about Cœurs Lost in Atlantis with Anthony Hopkins.

Catalog of films

• No Reservations (2007)
• Hearts Lost in Atlantis (Hearts in Atlantis) (2001)
• Snow fell on the Cedars (Snow falling one Cedars) (1999)
• Shine (1996)
• Call me Mr. Brown (1990)
• Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)
• Freedom (1982)
• Down the Wind (with Kim McEnzie) (1975)

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

• Card IMDb de Scott Hicks
• nonofficial Blog