DiCillo, Tom 1954–
DiCillo, Tom 1954–
(Thomas DiCillo)
PERSONAL
Full name, Thomas A. DiCillo; born in 1954, in Jacksonville, FL; father in the military. Education: New York University, M.F.A., filmmaking, 1979 (some sources cite 1976); also attended Old Dominion University.
Addresses: Agent—William Morris Agency, One William Morris Place, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Untitled Entertainment, 331 North Maple Dr., Second Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Career: Director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and actor.
Member: Directors Guild of America.
Awards, Honors: Golden Leopard Award, Locarno International Film Festival, and Critics Award, Deauville Film Festival, both 1991, and Grand Jury Prize nomination—dramatic, Sundance Film Festival, 1992, all for Johnny Suede; Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (with Joseph Tropiano), Sundance Film Festival, Grand Special Prize and Audience Award, both Deauville Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival Award, best new director, FIPRESCI Prize, Stockholm Film Festival, competition, Grand Jury Prize Award nomination, Sundance Film Festival, and Golden Spike Award nomination, Valladolid International Film Festival, all 1995, Vodomec Audience Award, best feature, Ljubljana International Film Festival, and Independent Spirit Award nomination, best screenplay, Independent Features Project/West, both 1996, all for Living in Oblivion; DVD Premiere Award, best screenplay, DVD Exclusive awards, 2003, for Double Whammy.
CREDITS
Film Appearances:
Airline agent, Stranger Than Paradise, Samuel Goldwyn, 1984.
(As Thomas DiCillo) Bob, Chain Letters, Planet Pictures, 1985.
Himself, At Sundance, 1995.
Himself, Independent's Day, 1997.
Film Director:
Johnny Suede, Miramax, 1991.
Scene Six, Take One, 1994.
Living in Oblivion, Sony Pictures Classics, 1995.
Box of Moonlight (also known as Box of Moon Light), Trimark Pictures, 1996.
The Real Blonde, Paramount, 1998.
Double Whammy, Lions Gate Films, 2001.
Delirious, A-Film Distribution, 2005.
Film Cinematographer:
Permanent Vacation, Gray City (also known as Permanent Vacation), 1980.
Underground, U.S.A., 1980.
Stranger Than Paradise Part One: The New World, 1982.
Burroughs, Cinecom International Films, 1983.
Stranger Than Paradise, Samuel Goldwyn, 1984.
Variety, 1985.
Coffee and Cigarettes, 1986.
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, 1987.
Robinson's Garden (also known as Robinson no niwa), Daiei, 1987.
(As Thomas DiCillo) The Beat (also known as The Conjurer), 1988.
Laura Ley, 1989.
End of the Night, 1990.
"Strange to Meet You," Coffee and Cigarettes, United Artists, 2003.
Film Work; Other:
Assistant camera operator, You Are Not I, 1981.
Creator of eyeball sequence, Double Whammy, Lions Gate Films, 2001.
Television Appearances; Specials:
(Uncredited) Himself, Shirtless: Hollywood's Sexiest Men (documentary), American Movie Classics, 2002.
Himself, Ceremonia de apertura del festival de cine de San Sebastian, 2004.
Television Director; Episodic:
"Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy," Monk, USA Network, 2003.
Stage Plays:
Johnny Suede (solo show), Home for Contemporary Theatre, 1987.
WRITINGS
Screenplays:
Johnny Suede, Miramax, 1991.
Scene Six, Take One, 1994.
Living in Oblivion, Sony Pictures Classics, 1995, published by Plume, 1995.
Box of Moonlight (also known as Box of Moon Light), Trimark Pictures, 1996, published in Box of Moonlight and Notes from Overboard: A Film-Maker's Diary, Faber and Faber, 1997.
The Real Blonde, Paramount, 1998.
Double Whammy, Lions Gate Films, 2001.
Delirious, A-Film Distribution, 2005.
Stage Plays:
Johnny Suede (solo show), Home for Contemporary Theatre, 1987.
OTHER SOURCES
Periodicals:
DGA Magazine, January, 1999, pp. 37-38, 45.
Melody Maker, April 19, 1997, p. 31.
Movieline, October, 1995, p. 75.
NME, June 20, 1992; April 26, 1997, p. 30.
Premiere, Volume 5, issue 4, 1997, p. 26.
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