Sam Mendes

Also known as Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes

British stage and film director (born 1965)

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Sam Mendes is a British director known for work in both theater and film, born in 1965. He is notable for bringing his experience across these two major art forms to projects that have gained significant public and critical attention.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 3

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Anderson and Low
American beauty
Skyfall

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Film & TV

Directing · 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…

Known for

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes — Self2022
The Sound of 007 — Self2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022
Allied Forces: Making 1917 — Self2020
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing — Self2017
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage — Self2016
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own — Self2016
The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest2015
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage — Self2014
Toast of London — Sam Mendes2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1965

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Listeners: 2,582
Total plays: 5,833

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,497x
<i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,752x
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,888x

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Image: Sam Mendes in 2022 (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Sam Mendes
date of birth: 1965-08-01
name in native language: Sam Mendes
start of work period: 1993-00-00
nickname: Sam
birth name: Samuel Alexander Mendes
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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British filmmaker and stage director. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years 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 Reading 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).