# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rob-nilsson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:19:29.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rob-nilsson"
name: "Rob Nilsson"
slug: "rob-nilsson"
description: "Rob Nilsson is a filmmaker, poet and painter, best known for his feature film Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson and winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1979). He also is known for directing and playing the lead role in Heat and Sunlight, produced by Steve and Hildy Burns, also featuring Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema and Ernie Fosseliius. Heat and Sunlight won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988, and his 9 @ Night Film Cycle won the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in Cinema. Nilsson has also received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Fargo International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee, the Master's Award from the Golden Apricot Film Festival, a Filmmaker of the Year Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival and the Milley Award from the city of Mill Valley for accomplishment in the Arts."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robagainst_graff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.676710666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/robnilsson1"
    handle:    "robnilsson1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632300/"
    handle:    "nm0632300"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://robnilsson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Нильссон, Роб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rob Nilsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روب نيلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روب نيلسون (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%D8%A8_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%86"
    title: "ڕۆب نیلسۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Nilsson"
    title: "Rob Nilsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Nilsson"
    title: "Rob Nilsson"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "راب نیلسون"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/102647"
    title: "Rob Nilsson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump