Nick Heckstall-Smith

Highlighted works

Topsy-Turvy

Mike Leigh’s first period drama is a witty reconstruction of the stormy relationship between W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan during the creation of ‘The Mikado’.
The Hours

Nicole Kidman won an Oscar as novelist Virginia Woolf in this complex drama exploring Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway through the experiences of women from different eras and places.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The third instalment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s adventure series influenced by Saturday morning serials is also the most light-hearted.

Filmography

2017

Churchill

Assistant Director
1st Assistant Director
2015

Ex Machina

1st Assistant Director
2014

Under the Skin

1st Assistant Director
2013

Sunshine on Leith

1st Assistant Director
2012

Skyfall

Additional 1st Assistant Director
2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

1st Assistant Director
2010

The Wolfman

1st Assistant Director (2nd Unit/ActnUs)
2008

Mirrors

Assistant Director (1st)
2008

Vantage Point

Assistant Director (1st)
2008

The Good Night

Assistant Director (1st)
2007

It's a Free World...

Assistant Director (1st)
2006

Stormbreaker

Assistant Director (1st)
2004

The Calcium Kid

Assistant Director (1st)
2004

Around the World in 80 Days

Assistant Director (1st)
2003

The One and Only

Assistant Director (1st)
2003

The Hours

Assistant Director (1st)
2001

The 51st State

Assistant Director (1st)
2001

Enigma

Assistant Director (1st)
2000

Topsy-Turvy

Assistant Director (1st)
2000

The Body

Assistant Director (1st)
2000

The Beach

Assistant Director (1st)
1999

Shooting the Past[10/01/99]

First Assistant Director
1999

Shooting the Past[24/01/99]

First Assistant Director
1999

Shooting the Past[17/01/99]

First Assistant Director
1999

Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace

Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st)
1999

Plunkett & Macleane

Assistant Director (Add Photography 1st)
1999

The War Zone

1st Assistant Director
1998

The Land Girls

Production Manager
1997

Career Girls

Assistant Director (1st)
1996

August

1st Assistant Director
1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1st Assistant Director (2nd Unit)
1992

A Brief History of Time

Assistant Director (1st)
1992

Alien³

Assistant Director (2nd Unit)
1991

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Assistant Director (2nd Unit 2nd)
1989

Money Talks

Assistant Director (2nd)
1989

Stormy Monday

Assistant Director (3rd)
1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

2nd Unit London 2nd Assistant Director
1989

The Lair of the White Worm

2nd Assistant Director
1988

The Fruit Machine

Second Assistant Director
1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

2nd assistant director (UK 2nd unit)
1987

The Living Daylights

Additional Assistant Director
1986

Little Shop of Horrors

Assistant Director
1985

Spies like Us

Assistant Director
1985

A View to a Kill

Additional Assistant Director