Gavin Hood was born on 12 May 1963 and is a South African filmmaker, and actor, best known for writing and directing Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
11 Facts About Gavin Hood
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Gavin Hood directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game, Eye in the Sky and Official Secrets.
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Gavin Hood then pursued a post-graduate degree in screenwriting and directing at a film school in California in 1991.
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Gavin Hood co-produced and wrote the script for his debut feature film, A Reasonable Man, which portrays the accidental killing of a young child mistaken for a tokoloshe.
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Gavin Hood then directed the Polish language 2001 feature film In Desert and Wilderness when its original director fell ill.
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Gavin Hood directed Rendition, his first Hollywood feature, for New Line Cinema.
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Gavin Hood 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.
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In 2011, Gavin Hood began work at the helm of novelist Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
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Gavin Hood wrote a draft of Card's screenplay and directed the film.
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Gavin Hood directed and acted in Eye in the Sky, which was released on 15 September 2015 at the TIFF in Toronto, Canada.
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Gavin 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.