Vincent Ward

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vincent Ward
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 16, 1956(1956-02-16)
Age	68
Birthplace	Greytown
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Wellington Region
Horoscope	Aquarius

Vincent Ward Biography

Vincent Ward is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on February 16, 1956 in Greytown, Wellington Region, New Zealand. Ward is born the 16th of February 1956, in Greytown, New Zealand. He received his education at St Patrick’s College, Silverstream and was also trained at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. When he was 18 when he was still in the art school, he started writing and directed.

The film that he made his debut feature-length, Vigil (1984), depicts “a solitary child who imagines, fantasises and dreams”. A lot of the story is influenced by Ward’s rural childhood in the Wairarapa filming location, it was made within the Taranaki after extensive searches for the ideal location and the perfect person (Fiona Kay) to be the lead character. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey was awarded major prizes during both Australian as well as New Zealand film industry awards and is a film with a freshness, intensity and vitality that keep them going strong and still attracting viewers in the present.

Ward’s films have earned critical acclaim and festival attention whilst reaching an international audience. Vigil, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) and Map of the Human Heart (1993) were the first films by a New Zealander to be officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between them they garnered close to 30 national and international awards (including the Grand Prix at festivals in Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the United States).

In 1990, Ward and John Fasano wrote a script for Alien 3, a proposed sequel to the film Aliens. They were the fourth and fifth of ten different writers to tackle the Alien 3 project. Much of the plot and several of the characters from Ward’s script were fused with the prison setting from David Twohy’s proposed script to form the basis of Alien 3 as it was ultimately made. Ward’s screenplay was written after Twohy’s proposed script was rejected, and was followed by the first draft of what would become the final shooting script, written by Walter Hill and David Giler.

At the age of 21 in 1978, Ward shot A State of Siege, the film of medium length that was adapted from an original novel by his fellow countrywoman Janet Frame. Ward has said that he saw Siege as the initial “public” film. It’s believed that five films preceded the release. When he was pursuing an Diploma of Fine Arts (with Honours) at Ilam in Christchurch He’d noticed his passion for painting and sculpture to the art of filmmaking as well as animation.

Vincent Ward Net Worth

Vincent Ward is one of the richest Film Director from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vincent Ward 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vincent Ward ONZM (born 16 February 1956) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and artist. He was made as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 for his contributions to the field of filmmaking. His films have been awarded worldwide recognition both at the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival and have been praised for their striking iconic imagery. The Boston Globe called him “one of film’s great image makers” and Roger Ebert, one of the leading film critics in the United States has praised him as “a true visionary.”

In the years 1978-81, he filmed the documentary Spring One Plants Alone, that won an award in 1982, the Grand Prix at Cinema du Reel (Paris) and the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. The film tells the story of an elderly Maori woman called Puhi and her son with schizophrenia Niki. Ward was their companion on and off as he learned more about Maori practices.

Ward’s planned follow-up was The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988), which utilises “medieval” blue and orange tones to capture a group of 14th-century Cumbrian villagers after they tunnel through the earth, and find themselves in modern-day Auckland. Ward described the film to The Evening Post as “a muscular adventure story, a quest film”—and also as a collision, a “juxtaposition of two time periods which enables you to see your own time through fresh eyes”.

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Rain of the Children followed in 2008, wherein Ward retells the story of Puhi, the elderly Māori woman who was the subject of his earlier documentary In Spring One Plants Alone. Chosen by the audience from among 250 feature films, Rain of the Children won the Grand Prix at Era New Horizons Film Festival. The film was nominated for best director and won best composer at the Qantas Film and TV Awards in New Zealand. Vincent Ward was also nominated for best director at the Australian Directors Guild Awards.

Facts & Trivia

Vincent Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Vincent Ward celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year.

Ward is actively developing new feature film projects whilst also focusing on public gallery art projects. In an 8-month period he had three solo exhibitions of large-scale painting, print, photographic and cinematic installation work. In 2011 he presented Breath an exhibition of paintings, photographs and cinematic installations at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. This was followed by the 2012 Auckland twin solo exhibitions Inhale and Exhale at the Gus Fisher Gallery and TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, respectively. He launched a third book, Inhale | Exhale, to coincide with his twin Auckland shows (Ron Sang Publishing). His art work is featured throughout its 180 large-format pages. Ward has been invited to the 9th Shanghai Biennale

2012. He was New Zealand’s first entrant to the Biennale with one of the very few solo pavilion shows, Auckland Station: Destinies Lost and Found, held in an historic former church on The Bund.

Where is Vincent Ward?

Vincent Ward is a gypsy filmmaker living between New Zealand and Australia. His two passions are film and painting. In his many other incarnations he has worked as an actor in LA, a screenwriter and has put out several books.

Who is vince Ward?

Ward (born January 27, 1971), also known as Vincent Ward, is an American actor. He is best known for his roles on The Starter Wife and The Walking Dead.

Who plays Oscar on The Walking Dead?

Vincent M. Ward

What does Vincent mean?

a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “conquering.”

What happened to Oscar in The Walking Dead?

During his plan to rescue Glenn Rhee and Maggie Greene, members of Rick’s group, Oscar is shot dead by a Woodbury soldier.