2. Nigel Dick
O Born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire,
England
O English music video and film director, writer and
musician based in Los Angeles, California.
O He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's
Christmas?", as well as over 500 other music videos.
O Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, in the East of
England and the University of Bath,
O Dick began completing a degree in architecture before
pursuing a career in the record business.
3. Career
O 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.
O He began his career in the record business working at Stiff Records,
where he stayed for five years working as a Press Officer with Madness,
Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and The Plasmatics.
O While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid video "Do They
Know It's Christmas?". In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to direct his first
feature film, P.I. Private Investigations (1987), starring Ray Sharkey and
Martin Balsam.
O In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major
production company for commercials and music videos.
O 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.
4. Continued…
O In 2003 he directed Seeing Double for Simon Fuller's 19
Entertainment, which starred British pop act S Club 7.
O In 2008, E! Television announced that Dick would be co-exec
producing an observational documentary TV series starring
Pamela Anderson titled: Pam: Girl On The Loose.
5. Awards Nigel Has Collected
O Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two Billboard
Awards and three MVPA awards.
O His videos have won a BRIT Award and been nominated for
more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen
MuchMusic Video Awards and a Grammy Award.
O His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.
O In 2000, the MVPA (Music Video Producers Association)
awarded him and the other founders of Propaganda Films a
joint Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 the MVPA awarded
him his own Lifetime Achievement Award for his hard work and
dedication to the business.
6. Singers/Bands he has directed
music videos for:
The artists and bands Dick has directed to date:
O The Offspring
O Britney Spears
O Guns N' Roses
O Oasis
O Backstreet Boys
O Green Day
O Elton John
O Paul McCartney
O Tina Turner
O REM
O S Club
O Pussycat Dolls
O Ozzy Osbourne
7. The type of genre Nigel Dick
specialises in
O Nigel has directed many music videos and has helped many
stars become successful along the way, including Britney
Spears and S-club however, the type of genre that Nigel Dick
specialises in is ‘rock’ and ‘pop’. The reason for this could be
because he feels as though he has more knowledge of these
genres, or it could be because he understands how to direct a
video in this way. Rock and Pop might be natural to him which
is why he has directed these types of videos, meaning that he
knows how to target a specific audience when directing a pop
or rock music video.
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