# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gavin-hood
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:27:25.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gavin-hood"
name: "Gavin Hood"
slug: "gavin-hood"
description: "Gavin Hood 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."
tagline: "South African filmmaker (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gavin_Hood_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.01945066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0004303"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump