Nigel Dick is an award winning, British born, film-maker. He has directed over 300 music videos and more than 25 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, twenty-six Much Music Awards, a Grammy and won one Brit Award. His many personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.In Nigel's career he has been responsible for directing some of the most famous music videos of all time, such as 'Sweet Child O' Mine', Welcome to the Jungle', Paradise City by Guns and Roses; 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis, 'Believe' by Cher and 'Baby one more time' 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.
Over his long career Nigel has worked with an long list of artists which includes: The Backstreet Boys, Toni Braxton, Sheryl Crow, Dashboard Confessional, Def Leppard, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Enrique Iglesias, Il Divo, Elton John, Amy Lee, Ricky Martin, John Mayer, Paul McCartney, NSync, Ozzy Osbourne, R.E.M., Rod Stewart, Sting and Tina Turner.
Nigel trained as an architect before pursuing a career in the record business where he worked for an, independent label Stiff Records and corporate Polygram before starting his directing career and moving to Los Angeles and immediately started shooting his first feature, PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS , starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam.
In the mid 80's Nigel co-founded Propaganda Films. Over the next few years the company became one of the hottest commercial and video production company in town before Nigel sold his share of the company to his old bosses at Polygram.
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