Sam Mendes

Directing·Aug 1, 1965·Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
The Beatles: John2028 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Beatles: George2028 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Beatles: Paul2028 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Beatles: Ringo2028 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Hamnet2025 · Producer	Producer
What They Found2025 · Director	Director
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue2024 · Director	Director
Empire of Light2022 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
The Sound of 0072022 · Self	Self
Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes2022 · Self	Self
Allied Forces: Making 19172020 · Self	Self
19172019 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy2019 · Director	Director
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing2017 · Self	Self
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage2016 · Self	Self
TTom Hanks: A League of His Own2016 · Self	Self
Spectre2015 · Director	Director
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage2014 · Self	Self
National Theatre Live: King Lear2014 · Director	Director
Skyfall2012 · Director	Director
Everything or Nothing2012 · Self	Self
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall2010 · Self	Self
Away We Go2009 · Director	Director
Revolutionary Road2008 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Things We Lost in the Fire2007 · Producer	Producer
"Jarhead" Diaries2006 · Self	Self
Semper Fi: Life After the Corps2006 · Self	Self
Jarhead: Background2006 · Self	Self
Who Needs Sleep?2006 · Self	Self
Jarhead2005 · Director	Director
Road to Perdition2002 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
American Beauty: Look Closer...2000 · Self	Self
Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'2000 · Self	Self
American Beauty1999 · Director	Director
Company1996 · Self, Director	Self, Director
Cabaret1993 · Director	Director