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Andrew Douglas began his career as a photographer for the magazine press, publishing, music and advertising industries on both sides of the Atlantic. He was later joined by his younger brother, Stuart, to form The Douglas Brothers. In 1991, they began directing music videos and highly influential television commercials, including the memorable 1996 Adidas Olympics campaign.

From 1997, Andrew has directed on his own and has had an unbroken run of major commissions for clients such as Nike, Adidas, Volvo, Coca-Cola, Audi, Ford, Toyota, Apple and Microsoft. He is rated one of the top commercials directors in the world and has been nominated as Best Commercials Director by the Directors Guild of America

In 2003, Andrew Douglas directed Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, the idiosyncratic, critically acclaimed feature documentary for the BBC’s Arena. Released theatrically in North America, it won the Seattle Film Festival's Jury award for Best Documentary and the Royal Television Society's award for Best Cinematography for Non-Fiction Films. Andrew’s next project, The Amityville Horror (2005), marked his feature directorial debut and was a US and International box office hit.

Andrew Douglas recently completed shooting on uwantme2killhim? from a screenplay by Mike Walden based on the Vanity Fair article of the same name. It was an Anonymous Content/Bad Hat Harry/Andrew Douglas Films co-production for Momentum Pictures and The Weinstein Company. He is involved in the development of several other film and television projects which he would direct including: The Perfect Assassin with the UK's Company Pictures and Rodar y Rodar; Touched By The Hand of God, being written by Mike Walden, with Keith Armstrong as co-producer, and also a UK television series, The Interpreter, to be written by Anjum Malik based on her experiences as a policewoman and legal and police interpreter.

Exhibitions and Awards
1996 The Douglas Brothers, the Kate Heller Gallery, London.
1994 The Douglas Brothers, Tokyo.
1995 The Douglas Brothers, the Howard Greenberg Gallery. New York.
1997 Andrew Douglas. Havana, Pictures from Cuba, The Photographers Gallery, London.
2000: Atlas 1. photographs by Andrew Douglas a permanent exhibition of travel photographs
installed at Mad River Post Gallery, New York;

Awards Include:

Royal Television Society Awards
Best Commercial and Best Direction: Hyundai Roundeye

New York Festival of Advertising
Hyundai Roundeye
Campaign Press Awards
Best Fashion Advertisement
Pepe Dead at Twenty

British Television Advertising Awards
Clothing Silver
Adidas Ali and Zatopek

Campaign Press Awards
Best Specialist Press Adidas Just to Signpost

British Television Advertising Awards
Diploma: Adidas Prince Naseem
Diploma: Adidas Owens/Bailey
Best Now: Advertiser Glenfiddlch Starfing Over

Cannes Advertising Festival
Television Bronze: Delta Airlines

AICP Awards
Kodak Award Best Cinematography: Nike NikeFit
AICP Awards
Kodak Award Best Cinematography: United Airlines Rising

AICP Awards
Kodak Award Best Visuals: Jeep The Hand of God
Cannes Gold Award & Sliver D & AD 0 Award
for stills on MS (Multiple Sclerosis) campaign for Saatchi & Saatchi

Seattle International Film Festival
Best Documentary
RTS Television Award
Best Lighting, Photography and Camera - Photography (Documentary/Factual & Non-Drama)

DGA Awards
Nominated. Best Director: Commercials