
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
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Unscripted
2005 · Series
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National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
2019 · Movie
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1917
2019 · Movie
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
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Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
2016 · Movie
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Hamnet
2025 · Movie
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American Beauty
1999 · Movie
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Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016 · Movie
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Penny Dreadful
2014 · Series
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Cabaret
1993 · Movie
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American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000 · Movie
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What They Found
2025 · Movie
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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024 · Movie
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The Hollow Crown
2012 · Series
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Baby Driver
2017 · Movie
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Toast of London
2013 · Series
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The Sound of 007
2022 · Movie
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Skyfall
2012 · Movie
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Road to Perdition
2002 · Movie
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The Kite Runner
2007 · Movie
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Everything or Nothing
2012 · Movie
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · Movie
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Revolutionary Road
2008 · Movie
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Company
1996 · Movie
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Semper Fi: Life After the Corps
2006 · Movie
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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020 · Series
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Who Needs Sleep?
2006 · Movie
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Empire of Light
2022 · Movie
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Away We Go
2009 · Movie
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Jarhead
2005 · Movie
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Spectre
2015 · Movie
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Things We Lost in the Fire
2007 · Movie
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The Franchise
2024 · Series
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Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020 · Movie
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The Oscars
1953 · Series
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Starter for 10
2006 · Movie
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NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
2014 · Movie
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Performance
1991 · Series
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Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes
2022 · Movie
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A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
2010 · Movie
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The End
2024 · Movie
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Series
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Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'
2000 · Movie
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Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Series

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The Beatles: Paul
2028 · Movie

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The Beatles: George
2028 · Movie

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The Beatles: John
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The Beatles: Ringo
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Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
2017 · Movie