Sam Mendes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1965-08-01 (59 years old)

Place of Birth Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Also Known As سام ميندز, 샘 멘디스, 山姆·曼德斯, Сэм Мендес, サム・メンデス, Σαμ Μέντες, 萨姆·门德斯, 샘 멘데스, Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE, Samuel Alexander Mendes

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 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.

Known For

Director

The Beatles: Ringo

as Director

The Beatles: Paul

as Director

The Beatles: John

as Director

2024
The Franchise

as Director

2022
Empire of Light

as Director

2019
1917

as Director

2015
Spectre

as Director

2014
2012
Skyfall

as Director

2009
Away We Go

as Director

2008
Revolutionary Road

as Director

2005
Jarhead

as Director

2002
Road to Perdition

as Director

1999
American Beauty

as Director

1996
Company

as Director

1993
Cabaret

as Director

Producer

Hamnet

as Producer

The Beatles: Paul

as Producer

The Beatles: Ringo

as Producer

The Beatles: John

as Producer

Beautiful Ruins

as Producer

2024
The End

as Executive Producer

2024
The Franchise

as Executive Producer

2022
Empire of Light

as Producer

2022
2020
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

as Executive Producer

2019
1917

as Producer

2014
Penny Dreadful

as Executive Producer

2012
The Hollow Crown

as Executive Producer

2010
Out of the Ashes

as Executive Producer

2008
Revolutionary Road

as Producer

2007
The Kite Runner

as Executive Producer

2006
Starter for 10

as Executive Producer

2002
Road to Perdition

as Producer

Crew

Writer

2022
Empire of Light

as Writer

2019
1917

as Screenplay