Rod Hardy born in Melbourne Australia is an Australian television and film director His interest in film began before the age of 12 when he shot several short films on his brothers 8 mm film camera Rod has over 350 hours of credits directing television drama in his native Australia His first feature film Thirst won Best Picture in its category at the 1980 Asia Pacific Film Festival Having honed his directing and producing skills in Australia Hardy moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to launch his American career His first assignment was to direct Lies and Lullabies the traumatic life story of pregnant cocaine addicts starring Susan Dey and Piper Laurie The movie was awarded the Scott Newman Award founded by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in memory of their son that is presented annually to the production that best illustrates the degradation of and triumph over drug addiction Since his award winning US directorial debut he has garnered both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for movies of the week and miniseries Hardy is well known in US television circles for shows such as The XFiles Battlestar Galactica and Leverage Description above from the Wikipedia article Rod Hardy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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