Person · Producer
Sam Mendes
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- Director
In short · Producing since 1993, 4 decades active, 33 credits, 3 Bafta Award wins.
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Untitled Paul McCartney Biopic
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Untitled John Lennon Biopic
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Untitled George Harrison Biopic
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Untitled Ringo Starr Biopic
- Award win
Bafta Award — Best Direction
- Award win
Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award — Best Director
- Award win
Academy Awards — Oscar — Directing
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Director
18 credits
Untitled Paul McCartney Biopic(2028)
Director
Film
Untitled John Lennon Biopic(2028)
Director
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Untitled George Harrison Biopic(2028)
Director
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Untitled Ringo Starr Biopic(2028)
Director
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What They Found(2025)
Director
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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue(2024)
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Empire of Light(2022)
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The Lehman Trilogy(2019)
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1917(2019)
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Spectre(2015)
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King Lear(2014)
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Skyfall(2012)
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Away We Go(2009)
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Revolutionary Road(2008)
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Jarhead(2005)
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Road to Perdition(2002)
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American Beauty(1999)
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Cabaret(1993)
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Producer
3 credits
Other crew
1 credit
Awards & Nominations
3 wins · 7 nominationsBafta Award
- Won2020Best Direction — Sam Mendes
Academy Award
- Nom2020Best Picture — Sam Mendes
- Nom2020Best Writing, Original Screenplay — Sam Mendes
- Nom2020Best Director — Sam Mendes
More awards & festivals (6) — regional academies & film-festival prizes
Academy Awards
- Nom2025Oscar — Best Picture
- Nom2019Oscar — Directing
- Nom2019Oscar — Best Picture
- Nom2019Oscar — Writing (original Screenplay)
- Won1999Oscar — Directing
Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award
- Won2019Best Director — Sam Mendes
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Additional credits11Show
Non-headline appearances — talk-show, awards-show, panel, and archive-footage credits, kept separate from the main filmography.
- Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the AshesSelf · 2022
- The Sound of 007Self · 2022
- Life CinematicSelf - Interviewee · 2020
- IMDb at the Golden GlobesSelf · 2018
- Keepers of the MagicSelf · 2016
- Tom Hanks: A League of His OwnSelf · 2016
- Judi Dench: All the World's Her StageSelf · 2016
- Brummywood YammywoodSelf · 2015
- Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork OrangeSelf · 2000
- American Beauty: Look Closer...Self - Director · 2000
- BrunchSelf · 1997
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