Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his directoral debut movie American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime movie Road to Perdition (2002) the James Bond movies Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), and the war movie 1917 (2019).

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Other websites

The Observer Interview 14 December 2008

Brandon Kosters interview 2 June 2009

Charlie Rose interview 5 June 2009

1965 births

Living people

Academy Award winning directors

Golden Globe Award winning directors

Tony Award winners

Drama Desk Award winners

English movie directors

English movie producers

English theatre directors

English screenwriters

People from Reading, Berkshire

James Bond movie directors

Sam Mendes