Rowan Woods
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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.
Career
=Film=
Woods directed The Boys in 1998{{cite web|url=http://screen.nsw.gov.au/index.php?page_id=24&fund_id=11&page=people&round=24&people_id=65|title=Rowan Woods|work=Emerging Filmmakers Fund|date=2009}} and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction.{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=4974&Section=Snapshots_from_the_Past_pg_3|title=Snapshots from the Past: A sneak peek into the AFI Awards photo archive |accessdate=6 Feb 2010}} The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/02_programm_1998/02_Programm_1998.html |website =Berlinale|title= 1998 Programme |accessdate= 2012-01-15 }} His next film, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett, was released in September 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.afc.gov.au/newsandevents/afcnews/converse/littlefish/newspage_207.aspx |title=Director Rowan Woods talks about his latest feature Little Fish|author=Dan Edwards|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013124932/http://afc.gov.au/newsandevents/afcnews/converse/littlefish/newspage_207.aspx |archivedate=2009-10-13}}
His 2009 film, Fragments received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics.{{cite web|url=http://citysearch.com.au/movies/1137612511659/Dakota+Fanning+vs+Rowan+Woods+?city=sydney|title=Dakota Fanning vs Rowan Woods|year=2008|author=Rod Yates|accessdate=6 Feb 2010}}
=Television=
Woods has directed episodes of several television series, including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
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.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
Other roles
Since December 2021{{cite web | last=Welch | first=Kalila | title=Rowan Woods elected as president of Australian Director's Guild | website=Mumbrella | date=12 December 2021 | url=https://mumbrella.com.au/rowan-woods-elected-as-president-of-australian-directors-guild-717649 | access-date=17 November 2023}} and {{as of|lc =yes|November 2023}}, Woods is president of the Australian Directors' Guild.{{cite web | title=Australian Directors' Guild | website=About | url=https://www.adg.org.au/about | access-date=17 November 2023}}
Awards and nominations
Woods has been nominated for many awards and won several, including:{{cite web | title=Rowan Woods | website=IMDb | url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0940774/awards/?ref_=nm_awd | access-date=17 November 2023}}
- 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
References
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External links
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{{Rowan Woods}}
{{AACTA Award Best Direction 1980–1999}}
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Category:Australian film directors
Category:Australian television directors
Category:Australian Film Television and Radio School alumni
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