Rowan Woods

Film

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]

Television

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]

• 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