Sam Mendes

Known for DirectingBorn 1965-08-01 (age 60)Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Unscripted

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

1917

Tom Hanks: A League of His Own

Hamnet

American Beauty

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Penny Dreadful

Cabaret

American Beauty: Look Closer...

What They Found

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

The Hollow Crown

Baby Driver

Toast of London

The Sound of 007

Skyfall

Road to Perdition

The Kite Runner

Everything or Nothing

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Revolutionary Road

Company

Semper Fi: Life After the Corps

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Who Needs Sleep?

Empire of Light

Away We Go

Jarhead

Spectre

Things We Lost in the Fire

The Franchise

Allied Forces: Making 1917

The Oscars

Starter for 10

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

Performance

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

The End

The Late Late Show with James Corden

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

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The Beatles: Paul

The Beatles: George

The Beatles: John

The Beatles: Ringo

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing