FILM DIRECTOR

Andrew Niccol

1964 - Today

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Andrew Niccol (born 10 June 1964) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca (1997), Simone (2002), Lord of War (2005), In Time (2011), The Host (2013), and Good Kill (2014). He wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won him the BAFTA Award in the same category. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Niccol has received more than 1,221,308 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Andrew Niccol is the 673rd most popular film director (down from 591st in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from New Zealand and the 4th most popular New Zealander Film Director.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 51.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Andrew Niccols by language

Over the past year Andrew Niccol has had the most page views in the with 163,062 views, followed by French (30,138), and Russian (21,558). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (202.25%), Malagasy (126.55%), and Danish (53.32%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrew Niccol ranks 673 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Goretta, Stephen Hopkins, Joe Johnston, Baz Luhrmann, Alexander Payne, and Tomoyuki Tanaka. After him are James Gunn, W. S. Van Dyke, Burt Kennedy, Vilgot Sjöman, Majid Majidi, and Ruy Guerra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Andrew Niccol ranks 138. Before him are Toni Polster, Valdo Filho, Elle Macpherson, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Věra Jourová, and Mikhail Fridman. After him are Amber Lynn, Eusebio Sacristán, John Norum, Sandro Rosell, Benoît Poelvoorde, and Vladislav Surkov.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Andrew Niccol ranks 30 out of 303. Before him are Cliff Curtis (1968), Temuera Morrison (1960), Alan Dale (1947), Wynton Rufer (1962), Jonah Lomu (1975), and Cindy Kiro (1958). After him are Raymond Firth (1901), Richard Curtis (1956), Peter Snell (1938), Manu Bennett (1969), Clive Revill (1930), and Taika Waititi (1975).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In New Zealand

Among film directors born in New Zealand, Andrew Niccol ranks 4. Before him are Peter Jackson (1961), Martin Campbell (1943), and Jane Campion (1954). After him are Fran Walsh (1959), Rupert Julian (1879), Lee Tamahori (1950), Andrew Adamson (1966), Geoff Murphy (1938), Niki Caro (1967), and Andrew Dominik (1967).

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Filmography

The Terminal
Director
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.
Jun 17o 20047.332 / 10
In Time
Director
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.
Oct 27o 20116.957 / 10
The Truman Show
Director
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
Jun 4o 19988.135 / 10