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Award winning, British born, film-maker Nigel Dick has directed 300 music videos (possibly a record) and twenty-two documentaries & feature films. He has won 3 MTV awards, 2 Billboard Awards and 3 MVPA awards. His videos have been nominated for a further twenty one MTV awards, nineteen Much Music Awards and a Grammy and won one Brit Award.His many personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.  

In his career Nigel has been responsible for some of the most influential videos in MTV history: 'Sweet Child O' Mine', 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'Paradise City' by Guns n' Roses; 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis, 'Believe' by Cher and 'Oops I Did It Again' by Britney Spears. In October 2007 two of Nigel's videos, 'Wonderwall' by Oasis and 'Baby One More Time' by Britney Spears, were voted into the top 15 music videos of all time in the United Kingdom.  

Recent MTV hits include 'Savin' Me' by Nickelback, 'Stickwitu' by Pussycat Dolls, 'Always On My Side by Sheryl Crow & Sting, 'Lips Of An Angel' by Hinder.  

In addition the enormous list of artists Nigel has worked with includes The Backstreet Boys, Toni Braxton, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Il Divo, Elton John, Ricky Martin, Paul McCartney, Amy Lee (Evanescence), Tina Turner, Celine Dion, R.E.M., Gloria Estefan, NSync, Rod Stewart & Ozzy Osbourne. It has been calculated that the videos he has directed have helped to sell in excess of 180 million records.

Nigel trained as an architect before pursuing a career in the record business where he worked for hot, independent label Stiff Records and the powerful corporate Polygram before starting his directing career and moving to Los Angeles, where he stepped off the plane and immediately started shooting his first feature, PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS , starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam. The film turned a tidy profit upon its sale to MGM and has now achieved late-night cult status. 

In the mid 80's Nigel co-founded Propaganda Films. Over the next few years the company would become the hottest commercial and video production company in town before Nigel sold his share of the company to his old bosses at Polygram. In recognition of its groundbreaking place in the history of music video the MVPA awarded Nigel and the other founders (David Fincher, Greg Gold, Dominic Senna, Steve Golin & Joni Sighvatsson) Lifetime Achievement Awards in April 2000.  

 

 

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Nigel directed the first ever made-for-MTV movie, 2GETHER,  which debuted on MTV in February 2000, was watched by 23 million viewers and spawned a TV series and a top 40 soundtrack album which contains three songs he co-wrote. He subsequently directed SEEING DOUBLE which became 'Britain's most successful film of 2003' (The Guardian). He is currently in post-production on his next feature CALLBACK which stars Kevin Farley as an out of work actor trying to get hired as the bad guy in the next Die Hard movie. In November '07 Nigel completed MILLAR'S TALE , an acclaimed short documentary about former world champion cyclist David Millar's two-year suspension from international competition after his conviction for using performance enhancing drugs. ("...a revealing look at the not-so-glamorous side of a pro cyclist’s life." - Bicycling.com). MILLAR'S TALE has recently been announced as an official entry at the 2008 New York Bicycle Film Festival.   

In the Spring of 2008 the E Network announced that Nigel was appointed as Co-exec Producer on "Pamela" an observational documentary series that features the iconic Pamela Anderson. This exciting new series will debut in the summer of 2008. 

Nigel has written eight screenplays the most recent of which is an adaptation of Nick Duerden's hip thriller SIDEWALKING which is currently in pre-production. Also in production are two  documentaries: IN SEARCH OF THE LANTERNE ROUGE - a film that follows the last man round the world's most difficult bicycle race and BERLIN CALLING - a historical journey that starts with one man's escape from the Holocaust and concludes with his daughter shaving her head and buying her first Clash album.

 Nigel has studied mime and is a graduate of Judith Weston's 'Acting for Directors' Class. He is also a serious cyclist and musician - he has ridden extensively in Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe & America and his first two albums 'Flesh, Blood, Wood, Steel'  and  'All Stars And All Sorts' are both available at Amazon.com. His third album 'Weird Stain' has just been released. 

His previous professional endeavors include: Architectural Draughtsman, Busker, Cab Driver, Construction Worker, Farm Labourer, Motorcycle Messenger, Packaging Clerk, Record Company Publicist, Scaffold Erector's Mate, Travelling T-shirt Salesman..