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Nigel Andrew Robertson Dick (born at Catterick, North Yorkshire, England on 21 March 1953) is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the "...Baby One More Time" music video by Britney Spears, as well as nearly three hundred other videos.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Awards 4 Selected music video credits (as director) 5 Credits as Director (Feature Films) 6 Credits as Screenwriter (Feature Films) 7 Musician 8 Traveller 9 References

Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, in the East of England, Dick began to train as an architect before pursuing a career in the record business. He has studied mime and is also a graduate of Judith Weston's Acting for Directors class.

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.

He began his career in the record business with jobs for Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years, and then Phonogram Records, another three years. While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid video Do They Know It's Christmas, starring Boy George, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Sting, Bono, members of Duran Duran, and others. In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to direct his first feature film, P.I. Private Investigations (1987), starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam. Since then, he has directed more than twenty documentaries and feature films and nearly three hundred music videos.

In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.

The artists and bands Dick has directed to date include The Backstreet Boys, Toni Braxton, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Il Divo, Elton John, Ricky Martin, Paul McCartney, Amy Lee, Tina Turner, Celine Dion, R.E.M., Gloria Estefan, NSync Pussycat Dolls and Ozzy Osbourne.

Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two Billboard Awards and three MVPA awards. His videos have won a Brit Award and been nominated for more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen Much Music Awards and a Grammy Award. His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.

In 2000, the MVPA awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

• "Living On The Borderline" by Smash Palace
• "Shout" by Tears for Fears
• "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears
• "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses
• "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses
• "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses
• "Patience" by Guns N' Roses
• "Gone Away" by The Offspring
• "Wonderwall" by Oasis
• "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis
• "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" by Celine Dion
• "Believe" by Cher
• "As Long As You Love Me" by Backstreet Boys
• "All I Have To Give" by Backstreet Boys
• "Drowning" by Backstreet Boys
• "(You Drive Me) Crazy" by Britney Spears
• "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears
• "Sometimes" by Britney Spears
• "I Think I'm In Love With You" by Jessica Simpson
• "Oops!... I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
• "Alive" by S Club
• "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional (Spiderman 2 Soundtrack)
• "Savin' Me" by Nickelback
• "Stickwitu" by Pussycat Dolls
• "Out of the Blue" by Delta Goodrem
• "Always on Your Side" by Sheryl Crow & Sting
• "Rocket" by Def Leppard
• "Slang" by Def Leppard
• "Work It Out" by Def Leppard

• Callback (2005)
• Seeing Double (2003)
• 2gether (2000)
• The Elevator (1996) (co-director, one segment)
• Dead Connection (1993)
• Deadly Intent (1988)
• P.I. Private Investigations (1987)

• Stella Roxx and The Killer Bats From Hell (2006)
• Sidewalking (2004)
• Callback (1999)
• Everlasting (1995)
• Country Lyfe (1994)
• Hangman (1994)
• Introducing Eric (1993) (story by Nigel Dick)
• One Week in April (1990)
• Deadly Intent (1988) (uncredited)
• P.I. Private Investigations (1987) (story by Nigel Dick)

As a guitarist, he has released three albums:

• Flesh, Blood, Wood, Steel
• All Stars And All Sorts
• Weird Stain

Nigel Dick travels by bicycle and has made cycle tours in fourteen countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and various states of Europe, including his home country of the United Kingdom.

• Nigeldick.com - Official site
• Nigel Dick at the Internet Movie Database
• Music Video Database: Nigel Dick - full videography