Biography
John Hillcoat grew up in America, Canada and Britain. A career in Fine Arts led to enrollment at Swinburne Film School in Australia, where he produced celebrated shorts. He went on to a successful career directing and editing music videos for such artists as Nick Cave, INXS, Crowded House, Depeche Mode, Robert Plant, and Muse, for which he won several international awards and an Australian Recording Industry Award for Best Director. John’s first commercial (Levi’s “To Work”) won two AICP awards and four Cannes Lions including best director.
After three years researching maximum security prisons in America and Australia, Hillcoat co-wrote and directed his first feature film, GHOSTS OF THE CIVIL DEAD. The film was nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards. His follow up film, released in 1998, TO HAVE & TO HOLD, is set in the jungles of Papua New Guinea and starred Tcheky Karyo and Rachel Griffiths.
Hillcoat’s next film, THE PROPOSITION, starred Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, John Hurt and Emily Watson. The film is an Australian Western set in remote outback Australia and was released in 2006. It was nominated for twelve Australian Film Institute Awards and won four. It was also nominated for nine IF Awards (The People’s Choice Awards) and won four including Best Film. The movie went on to win numerous other international awards.
His film was THE ROAD, based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It starred Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and newcomer Kodi Smit McPhee in a post-apocalyptic adventure in which people are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. Hillcoat received a Golden Lion nomination for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for his work on THE ROAD.
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2025 |
Blood Meridian |
2018 |
Corazón |
2016 |
Triple 9 |
2012 |
Lawless |
2009 |
The Road |
2005 |
The Proposition |
1996 |
To Have and to Hold |
1988 |
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead |
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2023 |
George & Tammy |
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Justified & Ancient (E06) |
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Special Ops: Lioness |
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Gone Is the Illusion of Order (E08) |
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Wish the Fight Away (E07) |
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The Beating (E02) |
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Sacrificial Soldiers (E01) |
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2022 |
George & Tammy |
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Two Story House (E05) |
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The Grand Tour (E04) |
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We're Gonna Hold On (E03) |
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2017 |
Black Mirror |
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Crocodile (S04E03) |
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2021 |
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends |
1997 |
Alleys and Motorways |
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2016 |
Depeche Mode: Video Singles Collection |
2007 |
Depeche Mode: The Best of Videos Vol. 1 |
2001 |
Digital Hardcore Videos |
Suede: Lost in TV |
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1998 |
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Videos |
1985 |
The INXS: Swing and Other Stories |
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2010 |
Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Blackwater |
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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead |
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Massive Attack: The Spoils |
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2009 |
The Rotten Tomatoes Show |
2007 |
Rencontres de cinéma |
Up Close with Carrie Keagan |
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2005 |
Made in Hollywood |
2004 |
At the Movies |
1991 |
Días de cine |
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Blood Meridian |
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