Director Thom Oliphant has shot over 200 videos and documentaries for country superstars such as the Dixie Chicks, Jamie O’Neal, Keith Urban, Pat Green, Jo Dee Messina, Patty Loveless and Dolly Parton; television comedy star Jeff Foxworthy; Canadian star Paul Brandt as well as pop chart toppers Brian McKnight, Amy Grant, Kami Lyle, Tracy Chapman and BB King, Gary Barlow and Duncan Sheik, whose "Barely Breathing" clip climbed to the number seven position on the VH-1 Top 100 Videos of All Time.

With his impressive portfolio, Thom was honored in 2000 with CMT’s (Country Music Association) Video of the Year for the Dixie Chicks’ smash "Wide Open Spaces." He was also named CMT’s Director of the Year in 1999, after having directed over 35 music videos that year, fifteen of which went to #1 on CMT in that year alone. In addition to the 1999 CMA top video honor, Billboard Magazine honored Thom again with its Best New Artist Clip award for his direction of the Dixie Chicks "Wide Open Spaces" video.

In addition to the constant demand as a music video director, Thom has most recently turned his lens on a series of TV projects for CMT/MTV Networks including CMT Greatest Road Trips and We Love These Bars - pure quirky Americana documentary programs. CMT’s 40 Sexiest hosted by Roseanne Barr and CMT’s 20 Sexiest Men and 20 Sexiest Women hosted be Patrick Dempsey and Daisy Fuentes is consistently one of the highest rated shows on CMT and MTV Networks.

Thom's career began in May of 1995 when he received the advertising industry's highest honor, the Gold Clio award for Best Country Video for Martina McBride's "Wild Angels" single. He also won a silver Telly award for "Wild Angels," which incidentally, became McBride's first Billboard #1, rising to the top position on both the CMT and CVC charts. Thom also garnered a Nashville Music Awards nomination with "Wild Angels" for 1996 Video of the Year.

Later that same year the Gospel Music Association awarded Thom their highest honor when he received a 1995 Dove Award for Video of the Year in recognition for his expert handling of Cindy Morgan's "I Will Be Free" video for Word Records. By this time, however, Thom had already completed his first short film, Dear Darwin, receiving both writing and directing credits, and a series of ID's and bumpers for CMT that drew a great deal of praise.

Thom has completed three films; the Universal documentary/concert film, Alive At Brushy Mountain, a unique journey of the lifers of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in East Tennessee, and two films, Star and This Moment in Country, for the opening of the $50 million County Music Hall of Fame.

He worked on such projects as the one hour CBC music special Stampede where Thom handled all live musical filming and Natalie Merchant: Live on Broadway, a concert film, Lifetime Special and DVD project shot over Merchant’s three night stand in New York.

Additionally, Thom has lensed close to 50 commercial campaigns, which earned him 10 Addie Awards for Excellence in Commercial Production in 2000, and ten in 2001. In 2003 Thom was awarded a National Best in Show Addy Award.

Thom is an advisor to Rock the Vote.