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Tom Scott

Writer, Director

 Tom Scott

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Tom Scott

Catapulted to fame after Robert Muldoon threw him out of a press conference, Tom Scott originally wanted to be a vet, but ended up helping Murray Ball turn Footrot Flats into a hit movie. The screen CV of this celebrated humourist and cartoonist ranges widely: from documentaries on Kiwi legends (Edmund Hillary, David Lange) to dramatisations of married angst (Separation City) and the 1981 tour (tele-movie Rage).

It has taken me 20 years to evolve into the writer I needed to be for this project ... I had to do something at this age, it might as well be a feature film. It was either that, or lawn bowls. 
 
 

Screenography

Screenography
 Role/s
 Rage

Rage

Writer
Producer

2011

 Separation City

Separation City

Producer
Writer

2009

 Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby

Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby

Producer
Writer

2005 - 2006

 Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby - Period One: The Appalling Mr Gormsby

Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby - Period One: The Appalling Mr Gormsby

Producer
Writer

2005

 Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby - Period Three: Human Relationships

Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby - Period Three: Human Relationships

Producer
Writer

2005

 Hurricane Brash

Hurricane Brash

Writer

2004

 Reluctant Revolutionary

Reluctant Revolutionary

Director
Writer
Producer

2004

 Cartoonists Inc

Cartoonists Inc

Producer
Presenter
Writer

2003

 Hillary on Everest

Hillary on Everest

Director
Producer
Writer

2003

 Pavlova Paradise Revisited

Pavlova Paradise Revisited

Subject

2002

 Spin Doctors - Election Special

Spin Doctors - Election Special

Writer

2002

 Spin Doctors

Spin Doctors

Writer

2001 - 2003

 Tiger Country

Tiger Country

Writer
Producer

1998

 Hillary - A View from the Top

Hillary - A View from the Top

Producer
Writer

1997

 Beyond A Joke!

Beyond A Joke!

Subject

1995

 Cover Story

Cover Story

Writer

1994 - 1996

 Fallout

Fallout

Writer
Producer

1994

 Fallout - Part One

Fallout - Part One

Writer
Producer

1994

 Fallout - Part Two

Fallout - Part Two

Writer
Producer

1994

 Letter to Blanchy

Letter to Blanchy

Writer

1994 - 1997

 Lyn of Tawa - In Search of the Great New Zealand Male

Lyn of Tawa - In Search of the Great New Zealand Male

Subject

1994

 Our Future Generation

Our Future Generation

Writer

1990

 Public Eye

Public Eye

Writer

1988 - 1989

 Footrot Flats

Footrot Flats

Writer

1986

 Press for Service

Press for Service

Writer

1986

 McPhail and Gadsby - Best of Series Five

McPhail and Gadsby - Best of Series Five

Actor

1983

 Loose Enz - Press for Service

Loose Enz - Press for Service

Writer

1982

 Inside Every Thin Girl

Inside Every Thin Girl

Writer

1979


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Awards

2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Comedy Programme, and Best Script, Comedy: for Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby

1998 TV Guide Television Awards

Best Factual Series: Hilary - A View from the Top

1995 TV Guide Television Awards
Best Script, Television Drama (shared with Greg McGee): for Fallout 

1990 International Television Association Awards 
Best Documentary Script: for Our Future Generation

1987 Listener GOFTA Awards
Best Original Screenplay (shared with Murray Ball): for Footrot Flats