Gavin Hood

Directing

Gavin Hood

Born 1963-05-12 · 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 Official Secrets.

Acting credits

Ender's Game poster
6.6

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.

Ender's Game

2013

Eye in the Sky poster
7.0

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

Eye in the Sky

2015

In Enemy Hands poster
5.8

At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

In Enemy Hands

2004

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday poster
4.5

A ship captained by the father of the leader of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday

1998

Project Shadowchaser II poster
5.1

Terrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at Washington. While the authorities desperately attempt to negotiate, the terrorists persue their real goal. A plant worker, her son and a tough-guy repair man have other ideas, and attempt to stop the terrorists from inside the plant.

Project Shadowchaser II

1994

Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target poster
4.8

The anti-terrorist team Delta Force destroys a billion dollar cocaine stash, to the extreme displeasure of drug cartel leader Umberto Salvatore. To retaliate, he hijacks a stealth submarine and threatens to unleash a biological weapon with the power to kill everyone in New York City.

Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target

1998

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice poster
4.4

When an American plantation owner's wife and her sister interrupt an African death ritual to save the sacrificial goat, the witch doctor places a curse on them, summoning a god from the sea to slaughter them and anyone in its way with a panga, a curved, African machete.

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

1991

Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins poster
6.2

Producer Lauren Schuler Donner starts this behind-the-scenes piece off by discussing how they initially wanted to tell Wolverine's Japan arc, but how the studio insisted that they give audiences an origins story first. What follows is a short, Hugh Jackman-centric look at the film's production, focusing on the character of Wolverine. The film's stunt coordinator discusses Jackman's commitment to bulking up-drinking a dozen egg whites a day and going on an intense fitness regime-and director Gavin Hood explains Wolverine's degree of self-loathing about his own nature. We also see some of the design work that went into the film, including the sculpting of young Logan's bone claws and the re-invention of the adamantium tank. Jackman comes off personable as always, and it's clear that he really loves this role.

Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins

2009

American Kickboxer poster
4.5

Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challenged by Denard for $100,000. Will B.J. accept and get even with Denard?

American Kickboxer

1991

Live Wire: Human Timebomb poster
5.4

A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.

Live Wire: Human Timebomb

1996

Show Me the Magic poster
2.5

Don McAlpine, legendary cinematographer. World renowned Australian. A documentary of his life journey from teaching physical education in Temora, NSW, Australia to Hollywood, making the visual imagery of an outstanding movies.

Show Me the Magic

2012

Traitor's Heart poster
4.9

Five years ago, Nick Brody lost his memory. He has moved on with his life when two strangers offer him a link to the unknown - his secret military past. After providing Nick with a mysterious picture and a cryptic message, the strangers turn up dead. The deeper he digs, the more Nick realizes that his puzzling past won't just haunt him, it could kill him.

Traitor's Heart

1999

A Reasonable Man poster
5.7

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

A Reasonable Man

1999

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NR

Documentary on the helicopter action sequence in 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' (2009).

The Thrill of the Chase: The Helicopter Sequence

2009

Behind the camera

Ender's Game poster
6.6

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.

Ender's Game

2013

Ender's Game poster
6.6

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.

Ender's Game

2013

Official Secrets poster
7.2

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.

Official Secrets

2019

Official Secrets poster
7.2

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.

Official Secrets

2019

Eye in the Sky poster
7.0

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

Eye in the Sky

2015

Rendition poster
6.4

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.

Rendition

2007

Tsotsi poster
6.9

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Tsotsi

2005

Tsotsi poster
6.9

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Tsotsi

2005

X-Men Origins: Wolverine poster
6.3

After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2009

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NR

A soft-spoken immigrant taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising "the test" confront a terrorist group lead by a far-right fanatic.

The Test

No artwork available
NR

A soft-spoken immigrant taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising "the test" confront a terrorist group lead by a far-right fanatic.

The Test

No artwork available
6.8

An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.

The Storekeeper

1998

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6.8

An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.

The Storekeeper

1998

No artwork available
6.8

An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.

The Storekeeper

1998

In Desert and Wilderness poster
6.2

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.

In Desert and Wilderness

2001

In Desert and Wilderness poster
6.2

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.

In Desert and Wilderness

2001

A Reasonable Man poster
5.7

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

A Reasonable Man

1999

A Reasonable Man poster
5.7

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

A Reasonable Man

1999