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Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) [citation needed] 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.
Tsotsi: Directed by Gavin Hood. With Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano. Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
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- 2006-03-31
Tsotsi is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski. It is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi by Athol Fugard, and is a South African/UK co-production.
Gavin Hood. Director: Tsotsi. Gavin Hood was born on 12 May 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and director, known for Tsotsi (2005), Official Secrets (2019) and Eye in the Sky (2015). He was previously married to Janine Eser.
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Mar 24, 2006 · Tsotsi is a young street hood that commits violence without giving it much thought. Then he enters a more affluent neighborhood and steals a car from a woman who he shoots.
Writer/director Gavin Hood's "Tsotsi" is based upon a novel by award-winning writer Athol Fugard. Hood has changed Fugard's 50's setting and placed "Tsotsi" in contemporary South Africa, revealing an even more powerful and politically revealing portrait of the heartbreakingly painful realities of life in modern day South Africa.
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Mar 9, 2006 · The story is based on a novel by the South African writer Athol Fugard, directed and written by Gavin Hood. This is the second year in a row (after “Yesterday”) that a South African film has been nominated for the foreign film Oscar.
