The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Uganda
This page contains a list of the greatest Ugandan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Uganda. This makes Uganda the birth place of the 84th most number of Film Directors behind Ecuador and Bhutan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ugandan Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Ugandan Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Scott Hicks (1953 - )
With an HPI of 41.57, Scott Hicks is the most famous Ugandan Film Director. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953), known as Scott, is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of Shine, the biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks was nominated for two Academy Awards. Other movies he has directed include the film adaptations of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis and Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Scott Hicks.
