Scott Hicks Filmography

Born:: March 4, 1953 in Uganda
Occupation:: First Assistant Director, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: After working for two decades on documentaries, shorts, and low-budget films, Australian writer/director Scott Hicks achieved international acclaim for the feature biopic Shine (1996). Born in Uganda, Hicks spent his childhood in Kenya and Great Britain before his family settled in Australia...Read More

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The Boys Are Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Clive Owen

Synopsis: Prime Suspect writer Allan Cubitt adapts U.K. sportswriter Simon Carr's popular novel about a successful sports journalist who is suddenly saddled with the responsibility of raising two sons from different marriages in this single-parent drama from director Scott Hicks. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

1/1/09
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Actors: Philip Glass

Synopsis: Shine director Scott Hicks documents a year in the life of prolific composer Philip Glass in order to explore the work that goes into creating a symphony and offer a detailed overview of his subject's remarkable career. Glass may be a composer whose name is virtually synonymous with the minimalist Read More

4/18/08
No Reservations

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Wade

Synopsis: Carol Fuchs adapts writer/director Sandra Nettelbeck's screenplay for the 2001 romantic drama Mostly Martha for this Scott Hicks directed remake starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, and Patricia Clarkson. Kate Armstrong (Jones) is the master chef who is equally intense both in and out of Read More

7/27/07
Hearts in Atlantis

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse

Synopsis: One of the short stories in a best-selling collection by author Stephen King becomes this mystery adapted for director Scott Hicks by screenwriter William Goldman, who previously transformed a King story into a box-office hit (Misery, 1990). In the summer of 1960, young Bobby Garfield (Anton Read More

9/28/01
Snow Falling on Cedars

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Eric Thal, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune

Synopsis: Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy of U.S. policies against Asian-Americans. In December 1950, just off the shores of San Piedro Island in Washington, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) Read More

12/22/99
Shine

Crew: Director

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud

Synopsis: The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David Helfgott, a pianist with a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy genius at math, chess, and piano, David is Read More

1996
Sebastian and the Sparrow

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alexander Bainbridge, Jeremy Angerson, Robert Coleby, Elizabeth Alexander, Vince Gil

Synopsis: Sebastian (Alexander Bainbridge) is a 15-year-old boy from a wealthy family. He befriends Sparrow (Jeremy Angerson), a street kid his own age who is the product of the union between a Vietnamese woman and an Australian soldier. Sparrow is busy trying to stay one step ahead of welfare officer Mick (Vincent Gil Read More

1988
Call Me Mr. Brown

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1986
Freedom

Crew: Director

Actors: Jon Blake, Candy Raymond, Jad Capelja, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Max Cullen

Synopsis: Ron (Jon Blake), a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, including the ability to articulate, yet he rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true. Actually, his main dream is driving Read More

1982
Dawn

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Bronwyn MacKay-Payne, John Diedrich, Ron Haddrick

Synopsis: Australia was a powerhouse in world swimming competitions long before the U.S.'s Mark Spitz was a gleam in his father's eye. Foremost among these sports heroes was high-spirited Dawn Fraser, who won four gold medals at three Olympics (1956, '60 and '64). This clear-sighted biographical drama Read More

1979
Money Movers

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Terence Donovan, Ed Devereaux, Tony Bonner, Lucky Grills, Alan Cassell

Synopsis: In order to raise the money for his "breakthrough" film Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford dashed off the guaranteed audience pleaser Money Movers. Terence Donovan masterminds a bank-vault heist that will potentially net his gang 20 million Australian dollars. The scheme Read More

1978