---
name: "Anthony Hines"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-hines"
fi1m_id: "anthony-hines"
imdb_id: "nm0385630"
tmdb_id: 6731
wikidata_id: "Q22115137"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-22T02:37:10.898128+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anthony Hines

## Identity

Anthony Hines

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-hines
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anthony-hines
- **IMDb ID:** nm0385630
- **TMDB ID:** 6731
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22115137
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6731

Writer and producer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:** Ентоні Хайнс
- **Frequently works with:** [Sacha Baron Cohen](https://film.one/person/sacha-baron-cohen.md), [Dan Mazer](https://film.one/person/dan-mazer.md), [Peter Baynham](https://film.one/person/peter-baynham.md), [Dan Swimer](https://film.one/person/dan-swimer.md), [Jay Roach](https://film.one/person/jay-roach.md), [Larry Charles](https://film.one/person/larry-charles.md), [Lee Kern](https://film.one/person/lee-kern.md), [Monica Levinson](https://film.one/person/monica-levinson.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (2), 2010s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $401m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6731

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan*](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md) (81), [*Brüno*](https://film.one/film/bruno.md) (58)
- **Apple TV:** [*Who Is America?*](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Anthony Hines is a British screenwriter, producer and director. He has worked extensively with Sacha Baron Cohen since the early 2000s, contributing to television series including *Da Ali G Show* (2000–2004) and *Who Is America?* (2018).

Hines received screenplay and story credits on the films *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006) and *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* (2020), as well as on *Brüno* (2009). He was nominated for an Academy Award for adapted screenplay for the first *Borat* film. In 2023 he co-wrote and co-directed the comedy *Robots* with Casper Christensen.

*Sources: imdb.com, apnews.com, hollywoodreporter.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Who Is America?* (2018), Fi1m 58, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *Brüno* (2009), Fi1m 58, Story, Screenplay, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006), Fi1m 81, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ali G: Who Iz I?* (2026), Screenplay, Story — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/ali-g-who-iz-i.md)
- *Robots* (2023), Director, Writer
- *Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision* (2021), Writer
- *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2020), Story, Screenplay, Producer
- *Who Is America?* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *Grimsby* (2016), as Giles Wareham · Producer
- *Klown Forever* (2015), as Gæst til Great Dane festen
- *The Dictator* (2012), Producer
- *Brüno* (2009), Screenplay, Executive Producer, Story — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md)
- *Dennis Pennis R.I.P.* (1997), Writer
- *Very Important Pennis: Uncut* (1996), Writer
- *Anyone for Pennis?* (1995), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2021: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*
- 2007: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Borat*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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