Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa on May 12th, 1963 and is the Director. At the age of 61, Gavin Hood biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and comedian best known for writing and directing Tsotsi (2005), which received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He also produced the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game, and Eye in the Sky.
Early life
Hood was born in Johannesburg and grew up in the Hillbrow neighborhood. Gordon Hood, an English-born South African retailer, is his uncle (d. 2013). Hood earned a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand at St St St. Vincent College. In 1991, he began working at a California film school for a post-graduate degree in screenwriting and directing.
Personal life
Hood has "bounced about, back and forth" between South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom over the course of his career.
Directing career
Upon returning to his home country, Hood got his start in directing when he was commissioned to make several short educational dramas for the South African Department of Health. His first commercial short film was The Storekeeper (1998). He earned an Artes Award for his contributions.
Hood co-produced and wrote the script for his debut feature film, A Reasonable Man (1999), which portrays the accidental killing of a young child mistaken for a tokoloshe. He then directed the Polish language 2001 feature film In Desert and Wilderness (W pustyni i w puszczy) when its original director fell ill. This was then followed by the critically acclaimed crime drama film Tsotsi (2005). Tsotsi went on to win the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, granting him his first Academy Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. Hood was also nominated for the 2005 Non-European Film—Prix Screen International at the European Film Awards for his work on the film.
In 2000, Variety magazine named him as one of its "Ten Directors to Watch".
He directed Rendition (2007), his first Hollywood feature, for New Line Cinema. He also directed the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, with Hugh Jackman reprising his role from the X-Men films.
Prior to the film's release, Gavin talked about the political undertones of the new Wolverine movie:
In 2011, Hood began work at the helm of novelist Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. He wrote a draft of Card's screenplay and directed the film. Ender's Game was released in U.S. theaters on 1 November 2013.
Hood directed and acted in Eye in the Sky, which was released on September 15, 2015 at the TIFF in Toronto, Canada.
Hood wrote, directed, and executive produced the 2019 British film Official Secrets based on the real life case of the Iraq War whistleblower Katharine Gun.