Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes

  • Birthday: 1965-08-01
  • Place of birth: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
  • Also know as: سام ميندز

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 Years Honours List. That same year, he 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). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time 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 and for his work on Broadway he has earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for his work on 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 crime film Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), the drama 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 nominations 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.

Filmography

Production

Baby Driver

2017

As Thanks

American Beauty

1999

As Director

Jarhead

2005

As Director

Revolutionary Road

2008

As Director

Road to Perdition

2002

As Director

Skyfall

2012

As Director

Away We Go

2009

As Director

Spectre

2015

As Director

1917

2019

As Director

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2014

As Stage Director

Empire of Light

2022

As Director

Cabaret

1993

As Director

Company

1996

As Director

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As Director

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As Director

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As Director

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As Director

The Kite Runner

2007

As Executive Producer

Road to Perdition

2002

As Producer

Shrek the Musical

2013

As Producer

Out of the Ashes

2010

As Executive Producer

Beautiful Ruins

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As Producer

1917

2019

As Producer

Empire of Light

2022

As Producer

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes

2022

As Executive Producer

Hamnet

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As Producer

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As Producer

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As Producer

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As Producer

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As Producer

1917

2019

As Screenplay

Empire of Light

2022

As Writer

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