Education
University of the Witwatersrand.
director screenwriter actor or actress
University of the Witwatersrand.
He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ender"s Game. Hood got his start directing when commissioned to make several short educational dramas for the South African Department of Health. His first commercial short film was The Storekeeper (1998).
Hood co-produced and wrote the script for his first feature film, A Reasonable Manitoba (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 (West pustyni i w puszczy) when the original director fell illinois This was followed by Tsotsi (2005).
In 2000, Variety magazine named him as one of its "Ten Directors to Watch". He directed Rendition (2007), his first Hollywood feature, for New Lincolnshire 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:
Any movie that is simply about good versus evil..is in my view putting out into the world and certainly into a mass audience and young audience"s mind a rather dangerous philosophy, which is that there is good and evil in the simplistic and easily defined way. I think that for the last eight years, we"ve had that philosophy very much prevalent in the Bush administration that if you"re on the side of good, at least as you perceive it, then you can do no evil..That"s what"s so great about this character or about this movie for me and why I wanted to do lieutenant.This is a guy who recognizes his own capacity for evil and I think that"s exciting in a sort of popular culture kind of way. After all, the most famous line from Wolverine, the comics, is "I am the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn"t very nice."
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 United States. theaters on 1 November 2013. Hood also acts occasionally, most notably in In Enemy Hands and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Lockdown".
In the early 90"s, Hood made notable appearances in two martial arts films shot on location in South Africa. In American Kickboxer, he played the pivotal role of Ken, who is accidentally killed at a party by lead character Bachelor of Journalism Quinn, played by John Barrett.
In his 2013 directorial project, Hood appeared as the voice and motion-capture performance of the Giant in the mind game of Ender"s Game.
Tsotsi won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 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 Kickboxer 5, he played a German kickboxing champion who faces off, and is ultimately killed by the main antagonist Negaal, played by James Ryan.
