---
name: "Robin Scholes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robin-scholes"
fi1m_id: "robin-scholes"
imdb_id: "nm0774580"
tmdb_id: 7259
wikidata_id: "Q131599558"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:04:27.987838+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."
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# Robin Scholes

## Identity

Robin Scholes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robin-scholes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robin-scholes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0774580
- **TMDB ID:** 7259
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131599558
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131599558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7259

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131599558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7259

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Once Were Warriors*](https://film.one/film/once-were-warriors.md) (82)

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## Biography

Robin Scholes is a New Zealand producer whose credits include the feature films *Once Were Warriors* (1994), *Broken English* (1996), *Mr. Pip* (2012), *Mahana* (2016) and *The Convert* (2023). She has also produced television series such as *Black Hands* (2020) and *The Bad Seed* (2019), as well as documentaries including *Colin McCahon: I Am* (2004).

Scholes trained in art history and film studies, lecturing at Auckland and Essex universities before attending the New York Film School as a Fulbright Scholar. She worked at TVNZ and co-founded the production company Communicado with Neil Roberts in 1983, where she produced early features for directors including Lee Tamahori and Gregor Nicholas. In 1997 she was appointed an OBE for services to film and television; she received the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2025.

*Sources: nzonscreen.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Once Were Warriors* (1994), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/once-were-warriors.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *The Convert* (2024), Producer
- *The Bad Seed* (2019), series, Producer
- *Shout at the Ground* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Mahana* (2016), Producer
- *Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Mr. Pip* (2012), Producer
- *Waitangi Day: What Really Happened* (2011), Producer
- *Colin McCahon: I Am* (2004), Producer
- *Rain* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Crooked Earth* (2001), Producer
- *Greenstone* (1999), Producer
- *Broken English* (1996), Producer
- *Once Were Warriors* (1994), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/once-were-warriors.md)

## Gallery

- ![Leslie Urdang, Eka Darville, and Robin Scholes at the premiere of Mr Pip, Toronto Film Festival 2012](https://film.one/media/person/85959/gallery-04765f54a82b.jpg) Leslie Urdang, Eka Darville, and Robin Scholes at the premiere of Mr Pip, Toronto Film Festival 2012 — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Mr_Pip_01_%288064128033%29.jpg/1280px-Mr_Pip_01_%288064128033%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robin Scholes](https://film.one/media/person/85959/gallery-9e15539c7860.jpg) Robin Scholes — Government House, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Robin_Scholes_CNZM_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Robin Scholes (right), after her investiture as CNZM, for services to the screen industry, by the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Auckla (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/85959/gallery-80db6d490b71.jpg) Robin Scholes (right), after her investiture as CNZM, for services to the screen industry, by the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Auckla (2025) — Government House, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Robin_Scholes_CNZM_investiture.jpg/1280px-Robin_Scholes_CNZM_investiture.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit 2024: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (won)
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1995: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (won)

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

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