Ngila Dickson Filmography

Blood Diamond

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Jimi Mistry, Michael Sheen

Synopsis: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African Read More

The Illusionist

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan

Synopsis: A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love of his upper-class, childhood sweetheart in director Neil Burger's cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser's short Read More

Without a Paddle

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi

Synopsis: Just as the old saying goes, a trio of hapless city-dwelling friends (Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, and Dax Shepard) find themselves spiraling out of control up a very brown river in this raucous comedy from Little Nicky director Steven Brill. Heading out for a weekend canoe trip in search of an Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

The Last Samurai

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Koyuki

Synopsis: Edward Zwick returned to the director's chair for the first time since 1998's The Siege with this sweeping period drama set in 19th-century Japan. After centuries of relying on hired samurai for national defense, the Japanese monarchy has decided to do away with the warriors in favor of a more Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 06

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: Picking up where season five of Xena: Warrior Princess left off, season six begins with Xena (Lucy Lawless) handily defeating the combined forces of the Olympian Gods, who had hoped to forestall their prophesied demise by killing both Xena and her reformed warrior-princess daughter, Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 05

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: It sure looked like curtains for Xena: Warrior Princess at the end of the series' fourth season, what with both Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), being crucified by the Romans, the fulfillment of a prophecy by the evil shamaness Alti (Claire Stansfield). Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 06

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: For all intents and purposes, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had run its course by the end of season five. Even so, the producers wanted to generate a larger syndication package, thus the program was renewed for a sixth season -- consisting of a whole eight episodes. With Hercules' traveling Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 05

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: While there had been a loosely-basted continuity during the previous five seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys -- held together by the never-ending efforts of half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) to right wrongs and champion noble causes Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 04

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess ended on a tragic note, with Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), friend and chronicler of reformed warrior Xena (Lucy Lawless), sacrificing her life so that her daughter, Hope -- the incarnation of pure evil -- would not be resurrected. Given the series' mythological Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 04

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season four of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys adheres to the basic premise of the previous three seasons: Half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues to spread good will and good deeds throughout the known world, accompanied by his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst), aided and Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 03

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess was the series' most eventful 22 episodes to date -- as well as the most mobile, with Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her friend and chronicler, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), traveling far and wide, from the British Isles to the far-off Orient. It is, in fact, during Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 03

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Legendary half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues his journeys throughout Greece and the known world to spread goodness and charity and defend the downtrodden as the character's weekly TV series enters its third season. Likewise, still on hand is Hercules' mortal friend and traveling Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 02

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season two of Xena: Warrior Princess is noteworthy for several reasons, though two of these stand out above all the rest. The first was the promotion to full "regular" status of the series' principal comedy-relief character, a bumbling wannabe warrior named Joxer (Ted Raimi), who had previously Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 02

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season two of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys finds the titular half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) persisting in their efforts to spread peace, kindness, and goodwill throughout Greece and the known world, despite the formidable opposition of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 01

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor

Synopsis: It had already been established before the first season of Xena: Warrior Princess got under way that the titular Xena (Lucy Lawless) had forsworn her former evil and despotic ways, and was determined to make amends for her past by helping innocents in distress. One of those "innocents" made her Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess [TV Series]

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: Created by John Schulian and Robert Tapert, the New Zealand-filmed Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin-off of the tongue-in-cheek "sword and sorcery" series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. As introduced on Hercules, Xena (Lucy Lawless) was a fierce and formidable villainess, the leader of a vast Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 01

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season one of the weekly syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys picks up the action where the fifth of the Hercules TV movies, 1994's Hercules in the Maze of the Monsters, left off. Olympian goddess Hera is determined to wreak vengeance upon her husband, Zeus, king of the gods, for the Read More

Heavenly Creatures

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison

Synopsis: After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey Read More

Rainbow Warrior

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox, John Callen

Synopsis: "Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985, the Rainbow Warior was destroyed by a bomb, and a crew member was killed. In this dramatization, Sam Neill and Jon Voight Read More

Jack Be Nimble

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Alexis Arquette, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne

Synopsis: Alternating between urban affluence and rural squalor in its New Zealand setting, this contemporary update of the Brothers Grimm tells the story of a boy and his sister whose placement into very different adoptive homes can't destroy the psychic bond that connects them. An impressionistic opening Read More

My Grandpa Is a Vampire

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: A grandfather joins the undead and delights his grandson with his many new talents in this Australian comedy set in New Zealand. Fortunately, those talents do not include bloodsucking. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crush

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Marcia Gay Harden, William Zappa, Donough Rees, Caitlin Bossley, Pete Smith

Synopsis: Produced with the help of the Sundance Institute, Alison Maclean's first feature, Crush, is a clever, gynocentric neo-noir. Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock) stars as Lane, the film's conflicted femme fatale. The film opens with Lane speeding along a winding road. She's driving her Read More