Nigel Dick

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Nigel Andrew Robertson Dick (born at Catterick, North Yorkshire, England on 21 March 1953) is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the "...Baby One More Time" music video by Britney Spears, as well as three hundred other videos.

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[edit] Education

Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, in the East of England and the University of Bath, Dick began to train as an architect before pursuing a career in the record business. He has studied mime and is also a graduate of Judith Weston's Acting for Directors class.

[edit] Career

Before success in the music and film industries, Dick worked as an architectural draughtsman, a clerk, a busker, a cab driver, a construction worker, a farm labourer, a motorcycle messenger, a salesman, a waiter, and served a spell in the Sewage Division of the Anglian Water Authority.

He began his career in the record business with jobs for Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years, and then Phonogram Records, another three years. While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid video Do They Know It's Christmas, starring Boy George, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Sting, Bono, members of Duran Duran, and others. In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to direct his first feature film, P.I. Private Investigations (1987), starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam. Since then, he has directed more than twenty documentaries and feature films and nearly three hundred music videos.

In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.

In 1999 he directed MTV's first made-for-TV feature '2gether'. The film spawned a TV series and two albums. Dick co-wrote a number of songs on the first album which reached the US Top-40 chart.

In early 2008 E Television announced that Dick would be directing / co-exec producing an observational documentary TV series starring Pamela Anderson.

The artists and bands Dick has directed to date include Guns N' Roses, Oasis, The Backstreet Boys, Toni Braxton, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Il Divo, Elton John, Ricky Martin, Paul McCartney, Amy Lee, Tina Turner, Celine Dion, R.E.M., Gloria Estefan, NSync, Pussycat Dolls, and Ozzy Osbourne.

[edit] Awards

Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two Billboard Awards and three MVPA awards. His videos have won a BRIT Award and been nominated for more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen Much Music Awards and a Grammy Award. His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.

In 2000, the MVPA awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

[edit] Selected music video credits (as director)

[edit] Credits as Director (Feature Films)

[edit] Credits as Screenwriter (Feature Films)

  • Stella Roxx and The Killer Bats From Hell (2006)
  • Sidewalking (2004)
  • Callback (1999)
  • Everlasting (1995)
  • Country Lyfe (1994)
  • Hangman (1994)
  • Introducing Eric (1993) (story by Nigel Dick)
  • One Week in April (1990)
  • Deadly Intent (1988) (uncredited)
  • P.I. Private Investigations (1987) (story by Nigel Dick)

[edit] Musician

As a guitarist, he has released three albums:

  • Flesh, Blood, Wood, Steel
  • All Stars And All Sorts
  • Weird Stain

[edit] Traveller

Nigel Dick travels by bicycle and has made cycle tours in fourteen countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and various states of Europe, including his home country of the United Kingdom.

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