The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Uganda
This page contains a list of the greatest Ugandan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 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 (b. 1953)
With an HPI of 42.84, Scott Hicks is the most famous Ugandan Film Director. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Ugandan film directors born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ugandan film directors include Scott Hicks.
