Rowan Woods
Rowan Woods is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, best known for the 1998 film The Boys and the 2016 television drama series The Kettering Incident.
Rowan Woods
- Name
- Rowan Woods
- Birthplace
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation
- * Film and television director
- Born
- 1959 · Sydney.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- Australian Film Television and Radio School
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Rowan Woods is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, best known for the 1998 film The Boys and the 2016 television drama series The Kettering Incident.
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Rowan Woods (born 1959) is an Australian actor, director and film director, among other activities. The actor was born in Sydney.
Rowan Woods studied at Australian Film Television and Radio School. The actor worked in Australia.
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• Name — Rowan Woods • Birthplace — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Occupation — * Film and television director • actor • screenwriter • Years Active — 1988–present
Television
Television
Woods has directed episodes of several television series, including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand. In 2012, he directed The Straits, and some episodes of Rake between 2012 and 2016. In 2016, he directed the acclaimed The Kettering Incident, and also Nowhere Boys. In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.
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Since December 2021 and As of November 2023, Woods is president of the Australian Directors' Guild.
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Film
Woods directed The Boys in 1998 and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction. The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett, was released in September 2005. His 2009 film, Fragments received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics.
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Awards and nominations
Woods has been nominated for many awards and won several, including: • 1998: Winner, Best Achievement in Direction in the AFI Awards, for The Boys • 1998: Nominee, Golden Bear in the Berlin International Film Festival, for The Boys • 1999: Winner, Best Director in the FCCA Awards, for The Boys • 1999: Winner, Readers' Award for Favourite Australian Film in the FCCA Awards, for The Boys • 2001: Nominee, Best Direction in a Television Drama in the AFI Awards, for Do or Die • 2005: Nominee, Best Director in the FCCA Awards, for Little Fish • 2005: Nominee, Best Direction in the AFI Awards, for Little Fish • 2005: Nominee, Best Direction in the IF Awards, for Little Fish • 2006: Nominee, Best Direction in the Zurich Film Festival, for Little Fish • 2014: Winner, Best Direction in a Telemovie in the ADG Awards, for The Broken Shore • 2015: Nominee, Best Direction in a Television Drama Series in the ADG Awards, for Rake • 2016: Nominee, Best Direction in a Television Drama or Comedy in the AACTA Awards, for The Kettering Incident
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- 1.Rowan Woods. Emerging Filmmakers Fund. 2009.
- 2.Snapshots from the Past: A sneak peek into the AFI Awards photo archive.
- 3.1998 Programme. Berlinale.
- 4.Dan Edwards. Director Rowan Woods talks about his latest feature Little Fish.
- 5.Rod Yates. Dakota Fanning vs Rowan Woods. 2008.
- 6.Welch, Kalila. Rowan Woods elected as president of Australian Director's Guild. Mumbrella. 12 December 2021.
- 7.Australian Directors' Guild. About.
- 8.Rowan Woods. IMDb.
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