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Sam Mendes
Directing

Sam Mendes
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1965-08-01,Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
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 and began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, which became 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. Mendes is currently planning individual but interconnected films based on the lives of each of the Beatles' members

Filmography

Being James Bond

7.7

Being James Bond
2021-08-29

Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'

5

Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'
2000-03-18

Who Needs Sleep?

7

Who Needs Sleep?
2006-01-19

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

6.2

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
2014-06-09

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes

5.7

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes
2022-08-26

The Sound of 007

6.978

The Sound of 007
2022-10-04

Everything or Nothing

7.111

Everything or Nothing
2012-10-05

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

7.8

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016-12-30

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing

0

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
2017-03-14

Allied Forces: Making 1917

6.5

Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020-03-24

American Beauty: Look Closer...

7.545

American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000-10-24

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

5.5

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
2010-08-03

6

Performance
1991-02-22

Toast of London

7.437

Toast of London
2013-10-20

The Late Late Show with James Corden

5.4

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015-03-23

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

2.7

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022-09-04

6.9

The Oscars
1953-03-19

8

Unscripted
2005-01-09