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Gavin Hood has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Official Secrets.
Recurring themes

The Contender
2000
Drama · Thriller

The Summit
2017
Drama · Thriller

Madras Cafe
2013
Thriller · Drama

All the King's Men
2006
Drama · Thriller

Nothing but the Truth
2008
Drama · Thriller

Coriolanus
2011
Drama · Thriller

The Collini Case
2019
Drama · Thriller

Locke
2014
Drama · Thriller

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Presley Chweneyagae, Jerry Mofokeng, Terry Pheto

After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep
Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching for the fabled King Solomon's Mines--a destination of legendary riches from which no soul has ever returned alive.
With Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Roy Marsden