Gavin Hood Movies: Top 6 Performances by a Successful Director



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Eye in the Sky Poster
Eye in the Sky ( 2015) | IMDb: 7.3
Drama , Thriller , War
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.
Starring:
Helen Mirren , Aaron Paul , Alan Rickman , Barkhad Abdi , Jeremy Northam , Phoebe Fox
Directed by:
Robyn Glaser , Morag Cameron , Sonja Lowicki
Produced by:
Jennifer L. Smith , Wikus van der Merwe , Claudia Bluemhuber
Ender's Game Poster
Ender's Game ( 2013) | IMDb: 6.6
Action , Adventure , Science fiction
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.
Starring:
Harrison Ford , Asa Butterfield , Hailee Steinfeld , Viola Davis , Ben Kingsley , Abigail Breslin
Directed by:
Anne Rapp , Garrett Warren , Gavin Hood
Produced by:
Gigi Pritzker , Mandy Safavi , Roberto Orci
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Poster
X-Men Origins: Wolverine ( 2009) | IMDb: 6.5
Action , Adventure , Science fiction
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
Starring:
Hugh Jackman , Liev Schreiber , Danny Huston , Lynn Collins , Kevin Durand , Dominic Monaghan
Directed by:
Danielle Blake , Paul Barry , Brian Smrz
Produced by:
Stan Lee , John Palermo , Richard Donner
Rendition Poster
Rendition ( 2007) | IMDb: 6.8
Drama , Thriller
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.
Starring:
Reese Witherspoon , Jake Gyllenhaal , Meryl Streep , Alan Arkin , Peter Sarsgaard , Omar Metwally
Directed by:
Gavin Hood , Robyn Aronstam
Produced by:
Mark Martin , Bruria Albeck , Toby Emmerich
Tsotsi Poster
Tsotsi ( 2005) | IMDb: 7.2
Crime , Drama
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.
Starring:
Presley Chweneyagae , Jerry Mofokeng , Terry Pheto , Zenzo Ngqobe , Zola , Rapulana Seiphemo
Directed by:
Gavin Hood
Produced by:
Peter Fudakowski , Moonyeenn Lee
In Desert and Wilderness Poster
In Desert and Wilderness ( 2001) | IMDb: 5.2
Adventure , Drama , History
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.
Starring:
Adam Fidusiewicz , Karolina Sawka , Artur Żmijewski , Andrzej Strzelecki , Krzysztof Kowalewski , Krzysztof Kolberger
Directed by:
Gavin Hood
Produced by:
Włodzimierz Otulak , Waldemar Dziki