Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
DGA Awards: Chloe Zhao, Emerald Fennell Among Feature-Film Director Nominees
hollywoodreporter.comThe Directors Guild of America on Tuesday announced the feature-film and first-time director nominees for the 2021 DGA Awards.
The feature-film director nominees are Minari's Lee Isaac Chung, Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, Mank's David Fincher, Trial of the Chicago 7's Aaron Sorkin and Nomadland's Chloé Zhao.
Last year, 1917's Sam Mendes won the DGA's feature-film award before losing the best director Oscar to fellow DGA nominee, Parasite's Bong Joon Ho.
The first-time director nominees are The Forty-Year-Old Version's Radha Blank, I’m No Longer Here Fernando Frías de la Parra, One Night in Miami's Regina King, Sound of Metal's Darius Marder and The Father's Florian Zeller.
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