Name John Hillcoat | ||
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Nominations AACTA Award for Best Direction, AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Movies Lawless, The Road, Triple 9, The Proposition, Ghosts… of the Civil Dead Similar People |
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John Hillcoat (born 1960) is an Australian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and music video director.
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- Red dead redemption short film by john hillcoat
- Unkle the answer john hillcoat director ray winstone starring
- Early life
- Career
- References

Unkle the answer john hillcoat director ray winstone starring
Early life

Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He attended St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School and was active with the McMaster University Film Board most notably producing an animated short titled "The Finger".
Career

Hillcoat has often worked with Nick Cave, the band Depeche Mode, and actor Guy Pearce. The Road, his adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy, premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and was released in the U.S. in November 2009. His 2012 film, Lawless, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Hillcoat's film, Triple 9 was released in 2016. In 2017, he directed "Crocodile", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

