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Scott Hicks

Highest Rated: 100% Highly Strung (2015)

Lowest Rated: 7% Fallen (2016)

Birthday: Mar 4, 1953

Birthplace: Uganda

Australian writer-producer-director Scott Hicks enjoyed a lengthy career alternating between smaller dramatic films, informative documentaries and mainstream Hollywood features. Learning his trade under the tutelage of such acclaimed Aussie filmmakers as Bruce Beresford during the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s, Hicks debuted with his high-octane coming of age tale, "Freedom!" (1982). His follow-up, "Sebastian and the Sparrow" (1988), the story of an unlikely boyhood friendship, was as commercially unexceptional as its predecessor, although Hicks found success on television, helming documentaries like the Emmy-winning "Submarines: Sharks of Steel: The Hidden Threat" (The Discovery Channel, 1993). Universal acclaim in the feature world came at last with the musical biopic "Shine" (1996), the project that won actor Geoffrey Rush an Oscar and took the Australian director to Hollywood. He followed this with dramas - the aesthetically sublime romance "Snow Falling on Cedars" (1999) and "Hearts in Atlantis" (2001), a mood piece based on a Stephen King novella. After a period of time spent back in Australia tending his to his winery and directing television commercials, Hicks ventured back to Hollywood for the romantic comedy-drama "No Reservations" (2007), followed by the more heartfelt "The Boys Are Back" (2009) and an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks love story "The Lucky One" (2012). Clearly more interested in the drama inherent in the human struggle than showy genre entertainments, Hicks continually sought out material that spoke to him on a personal level.

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Highest rated movies

100% Highly Strung
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91% 90% Shine
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84% 79% Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
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73% 61% The Boys Are Back
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49% 64% Hearts in Atlantis
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43% 62% No Reservations
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39% 67% Snow Falling on Cedars
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20% 67% The Lucky One
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7% 65% Fallen Watchlist
Sebastian and the Sparrow
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Name's Ben Folds, I Play Piano Director,
Writer
- 2023
7% 65% Fallen Director - 2016
100% No Score Yet Highly Strung Director,
Writer
- 2015
20% 67% The Lucky One Director $60.4M 2012
73% 61% The Boys Are Back Director $783.0K 2009
No Score Yet 62% Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary Self - 2008
84% 79% Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Director,
Producer,
Cinematographer
$20.0K 2007
43% 62% No Reservations Director $43.1M 2007
49% 64% Hearts in Atlantis Director $24.2M 2001
39% 67% Snow Falling on Cedars Director,
Screenwriter
$14.4M 1999
91% 90% Shine Director,
Writer
$35.9M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sebastian and the Sparrow Director - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call Me Mr. Brown Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Freedom Director - 1982