Sam Mendes

Stage & Film Director Known for "Cabaret"

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Sam Mendes Biography

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his directoral debut film American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002) the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), and the war film 1917 (2019), which earned him his second Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

He is also known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), 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 directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.

In 2000, Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to drama" and in the same year 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".

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/27/2024.

Sam Mendes Videos

  • Sam Mendes Wins Best Director - 2020 Golden Globes
    Sam Mendes accepts the award for Best Director - Motion Picture at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
  • Sam Mendes Reveals His Film Influences | On Directing
    Director Sam Mendes discusses which films have influenced him and the differences between directing film and theatre.

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