Rowan Woods

{{Short description|Australian film director}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Rowan Woods | image = | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Film and television director|actor|screenwriter}} | years_active = 1988–present | spouse = | website = }}

'''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<ref>{{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}}</ref> and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Berlinale">{{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 }}</ref> His next film, ''Little Fish'', starring Cate Blanchett, was released in September 2005.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

His 2009 film, ''Fragments'' received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Television=== Woods has directed episodes of several television series, including ''Farscape'', ''Fireflies'', ''Police Rescue'', and ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand''.{{citation needed|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''.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In 2013, he directed ''The Broken Shore'', a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

== Other roles == Since December 2021<ref>{{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}}</ref> and {{as of|lc =yes|November 2023}}, Woods is president of the Australian Directors' Guild.<ref>{{cite web | title=Australian Directors' Guild | website=About | url=https://www.adg.org.au/about | access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations== Woods has been nominated for many awards and won several, including:<ref name=awards>{{cite web | title=Rowan Woods | website=IMDb | url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0940774/awards/?ref_=nm_awd | access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> *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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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0940774}}

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