Sam Mendes
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.
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Movies (42)
The Beatles: Ringo
2028 · Director, Producer
The Beatles: George
2028 · Director, Producer
The Beatles: John
2028 · Director, Producer
The Beatles: Paul
2028 · Director, Producer
Digger
2026 · Thanks
Hamnet
2025 · Producer
What They Found
2025 · Director
The End
2024 · Executive Producer
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024 · Director
Imperio de luz
2022 · Director, Producer, Writer
El Sonido de 007
2022 · Self
Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes
2022 · Self, Creator, Executive Producer
Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020 · Self
1917
2019 · Director, Producer, Writer
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
2019 · Director, Stage Director
Baby: El aprendiz del crimen
2017 · Thanks
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
2017 · Self
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016 · Self
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
2016 · Self
007: Spectre
2015 · Director
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
2014 · Self
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · Stage Director, Director
007: Operación Skyfall
2012 · Director
Everything or Nothing
2012 · Self
Out of the Ashes
2010 · Executive Producer
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
2010 · Self
Away We Go
2009 · Director
Sólo un sueño
2008 · Director, Producer
Cometas en el cielo
2007 · Executive Producer
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007 · Producer
Un Chico Listo
2006 · Executive Producer
"Jarhead" Diaries
2006 · Self
Semper Fi: Life After the Corps
2006 · Self
Jarhead: Background
2006 · Self
Who Needs Sleep?
2006 · Self
Soldado anónimo
2005 · Director
Camino a la Perdicion
2002 · Director, Producer
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000 · Self
Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'
2000 · Self
Belleza Americana
1999 · Director
Company
1996 · Self, Director
Cabaret
1993 · Director
TV shows (12)
La franquicia
2024 · Executive Producer, Director
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Penny Dreadful: Ciudad de ángeles
2020 · Executive Producer
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self - Guest
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Executive Producer
Toast of London
2013 · Sam Mendes
La Corona Vacía
2012 · Executive Producer
Unscripted
2005 · Sam Mendes
Performance
1991 · Self, Director
In My Defence
1991 · Director
The South Bank Show
1978
The Oscars
1953 · Self