Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 01, 1965
Place of Birth
Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Credits
51 titles
Sam Mendes
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. 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Beatles: John
Director
The Beatles: Paul
Director
The Beatles: George
Director
The Beatles: Ringo
Director
Hamnet
Producer
What They Found
Director
The End
Executive Producer
The Franchise
Executive Producer
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
Director
Empire of Light
Producer
The Sound of 007
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes
Self
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Executive Producer
Allied Forces: Making 1917
Self
1917
Director
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Director
Baby Driver
Thanks
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
Self
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
Self
Spectre
Director
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
Self
Penny Dreadful
Executive Producer
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Stage Director
Toast of London
Sam Mendes
Skyfall
Director
Everything or Nothing
Self
The Hollow Crown
Executive Producer
Out of the Ashes
Executive Producer
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
Self
Away We Go
Director
Revolutionary Road
Director
The Kite Runner
Executive Producer
Things We Lost in the Fire
Producer
Starter for 10
Executive Producer
"Jarhead" Diaries
Self
Semper Fi: Life After the Corps
Self
Jarhead: Background
Self
Who Needs Sleep?
Self
Jarhead
Director
Unscripted
Sam Mendes
Road to Perdition
Director
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
American Beauty
Director
Company
Self
Cabaret
Director
Performance
Self