Patterson's debut feature film, A Wreck, A Tangle, received an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for 'Best Achievement in Sound' in 2000.
It also won an Awgie Award from the Australian Writers' Guild in the category 'Feature Film – Original'.
[4] Pact also screened at the New Directors/New Films Festival at MOMA, New York, USA.
[5][6] In 2019, Scott wrote a non-fiction book, The Oarsmen about the Australian diggers who won the King’s Cup for rowing at the 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta.
The Oarsmen was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Prize (Australian History) in 2020.