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Gavin Hood
Director 63 years old

Gavin Hood

Johannesburg, South Africa

Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, and actor, best known for writing and directing Tsotsi (2005), which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game, Eye in the Sky and... Read full bio →

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7 titles
Official Secrets

Official Secrets

Gavin Hood 2019 1h 52m

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

Eye in the Sky

Eye in the Sky

Gavin Hood 2015 1h 42m 7.0

A military officer in command of a drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya sees her mission escalate from “capture” to “kill” just as a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone.

Ender's Game

Ender's Game

Gavin Hood 2013 1h 54m 6.5

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Gavin Hood 2009 1h 47m 6.7

A spinoff of the X-men series of films and comic books revealing the life of Wolverine-- his childhood in Canada, the Weapon X program, his conflict with half-brother Sabretooth, and becoming a legendary X-man.

Rendition

Rendition

Gavin Hood 2007 2h 6.5

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Tsotsi

Tsotsi

Gavin Hood 2005 1h 34m 6.9

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

W pustyni i w puszczy

W pustyni i w puszczy

Gavin Hood 2001 1h 51m

In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.

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