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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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Born | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Years active | 1988–present |
Woods directed The Boys in 1998[1] and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction.[2] The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] His next film, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett, was released in September 2005.[4]
His 2009 film, Fragments received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics.[5]
Woods has directed episodes of several television series, including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.[citation needed]
Since December 2021[6] and as of November 2023[update], Woods is president of the Australian Directors' Guild.[7]
Woods has been nominated for many awards and won several, including:[8]
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