2026Nominee
Best Director
Lucky Strike
Rod Lurie
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Israel
May 15, 1962
Biography
Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States. The characters (in his films) of President Jackson Evans (The Contender), prison inmate Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin (The Last Castle), FBI agent Paige Van Doren (Line of Fire), and vice presidential nominee Gen. (ret.) Warren Keaton (Commander in Chief) are all fictional graduates of the "Long Gray Line".
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2001Nominee
Best Director
The Last Castle
2020Nominee
Best Director
The Outpost
Career Highlights
2011Highlight
Best Performance
Straw Dogs
2008Highlight
Best Performance
Nothing But the Truth