He has won four BAFTA TV awards, including Best Writer for the 2009 film Five Minutes of Heaven.
[1] Five Minutes of Heaven also won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, given for work promoting peace and reconciliation in Ireland.
His script for Eye In The Sky won Best Screenplay at Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017.
His play On The Edge was the winner of the John Whiting Award in 1985.
Hibbert lives in London with his wife, poet and translator Meifu Wang.