| Biography | Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British stage and film director. He is best known for directing American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the crime film Road to Perdition (2002); the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012), and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1996) and Gypsy (2003).
He was awarded a CBE in 2000, and a Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Mendes has a child with his former wife, Kate Winslet. |