Nick Wickham

{{Short description|British film and television director}}

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Nick Wickham is a British film and television director specialising in live performance, beginning his career in music and fashion by shooting and directing shows and on air presentations at MTV Europe.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1gsEAAAAMBAJ&q=nick+wickham+mtv+europe&pg=PA95|title=Billboard|date=3 June 1995|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}} In 1997 he moved on to establish boutique film production company Splinter Films with Producer Emer Patten,{{cite web|url=http://www.splinterfilms.com|title=Splinter Films|website=Splinter Films|access-date=2020-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323064500/http://splinterfilms.com/|archive-date=2018-03-23|url-status=dead}} where he worked as a multi camera director for live events on multiple platforms including cinema, TV, 3D, DVD and online digital streaming, before going freelance in 2017. He has worked extensively with some of the world's best-known musical artists, creating concert films for Madonna, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Metallica, Foo Fighters, The Cure, Katy Perry and Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as major Latin music artists such as Shakira, Carlos Santana, Alejandro Sanz and Ivete Sangalo.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

Wickham is also a multi camera director for the National Theatre for the National Theatre Live series of live streams to cinema. Work includes A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson,[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/stage/young-vics-a-streetcar-named-desire-rolls-on-to-local-screens/story-fn9d344c-1227152991159 The Australian] {{dead link|date=April 2023}} Ivo van Hove's production of A View from the Bridge with Mark Strong, Théâtre de Complicité's A Disappearing Number{{Cite web |url=http://www.trespassmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/NTLive_ADN_programme-UK-AW.pdf |title=Trespass Magazine |access-date=21 September 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200807/http://www.trespassmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/NTLive_ADN_programme-UK-AW.pdf |url-status=usurped }} and the original production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-ten-pieces-launch|title=BBC's Ten Pieces film launches in cinemas for 100,000 children across the country|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} from the Young Vic.

Also made for cinema, with BBC Music and BBC Learning, are the groundbreaking classical music films Ten Pieces & Ten Pieces II, that have helped to establish a music curriculum for British primary and secondary schools.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32812377|title=BBC takes classical music scheme Ten Pieces to teens|date=20 May 2015|publisher=BBC Sport}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/ten-pieces-secondary|title=BBC – BBC Music's Ten Pieces extended to secondary school students with new list of music – Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}

Wickham's long form work has been nominated twice for a Latin Grammy,{{cite web|url=http://www.latingrammy.com/en/nominees?genre=46|title=18a Entrega Anual del Latin GRAMMY|website=Latin GRAMMYs}}{{cite web|url=http://filmireland.net/2012/11/13/latin-grammy-nomination-for-irish-producers-team-shakira-film/|title=Latin Grammy Nomination for Irish Producer's Team & Shakira Film – Film Ireland|website=filmireland.net}} in addition to winning the award for Best Director (TV/DVD) at the 2006 CAD awards{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/video-makers-celebrate-at-cads-06/034851|title=Video makers celebrate at Cads 06|website=www.musicweek.com}} and best director at the TPi awards.{{cite web |url=http://www.lsionline.co.uk/news/story/TPI-Awards-05/IC04J1 |title=TPI Awards '05 - 16 February 2005 - Daily Online News - LSi Online |website=www.lsionline.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125125841/http://www.lsionline.co.uk/news/story/TPI-Awards-05/IC04J1 |archive-date=2015-11-25}} In 2013, Katy Perry: Part of Me was awarded Best 3D Live Event at the 4th Annual Creative Arts Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.advancedimagingsociety.com/webpage.aspx?webpage=4342|title=Advanced Imaging Society|publisher=}} Wickham's work for BBC Ten Pieces won a BAFTA in 2016 British Academy Children's Award.