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Paul Greengrass

A visionary filmmaker must navigate the cutthroat world of cinema to bring his unique perspective to life on the big screen, where creative genius meets high-stakes pressure.

Born

June 17, 1955

From

Cheam, Surrey, England, UK

Also:
Producer
Writer

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Decades active

Awards

In short · Directing since 1989, 5 decades active, 21 credits.

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Biography

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist. One of his early films, *Bloody Sunday* (2002), won the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of the Bourne action-thriller film series: *The Bourne Supremacy* (2004), *The Bourne Ultimatum* (2007), and *Jason Bourne* (2016). He also directed *United 93* (2006), for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director; as well as *Green Zone* (2010) and *Captain Phillips* (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film *Omagh*, which won the Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards.

In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28th on *EW*'s *The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood* in 2007. In 2008, *The Telegraph* named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.

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