Robert Dickinson

Robert Dickinson (born July 25, 1954) is a television lighting designer.

His career, spanning decades, has focussed on awards shows, music shows, game shows, talk shows, and special events, which make up his over 1500 on screen television credits.

Dickinson pioneered the use of moving lights in television lighting design, starting with the 1983 Academy Awards.

He is known for his "ceiling of light" approach, and the use of floor lights.

On key lighting, Dickinson says: "I have a tendency to take risks. I don't key light in a predictable manner; I do it in an appropriate manner. "

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, The Rolling Stones, U2, Aerosmith, ‘N Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, Nelly, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Savion Glover, Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, The Temptations, Queen Latifah, The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman and Jim Belushi), ZZ Top, James Brown, Diana Ross, Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, The Judds and Michael Jackson

In 1990 Dickinson founded Full Flood, Inc., a consortium of lighting designers and directors of photography for the multi-camera television industry.

In 2005 Dickinson was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dickinson has been involved with many high-profile shows, including the Academy Awards, multiple Super Bowl Halftime Shows, multiple Olympic Opening Ceremonies, the 2010 Shanghai Expo, among others.

Dickinson was born in the UK before moving to Kansas at the age of two.

Shortly thereafter his family moved to Southern California where he remains to this day.

Dickinson's break into the industry came when joining the stagehands union.

He quickly moved into lighting direction, working under industry leader Imero Fiorentino.

His breakthrough show Solid Gold garnered him his first Emmy win at the age of 29, and was the catalyst that lead to an exploding career in Television Lighting.