He is the first Oscar-Winning director to helm a James Bond movie. He is also the first director, since John Glen, to helm two movies in a row.
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Directing "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" for the Donmar Warehouse Theatre Co. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music featuring Emily Watson. [February 2003]
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He is directing Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in the Broadway theater production of "The Vertical Hour" in New York City. [January 2007]
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Announced new film and theater production company, Scamp, with his two business partners, Pippa Harris (who heads the film division) and Caro Newling (who heads the theater division). Dreamworks is to automatically get first privileges with all of Scamp's film projects. [February 2004]
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His paternal grandparents were of Trinidad's ethnic Portuguese community. His grandfather is famed West Indian writer Alfred H. Mendes.
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It was announced in March 2010 that he and Kate Winslet had separated earlier the same year.
Suggested the idea for initiating production on "Shrek the Musical" to Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks Animation during the creation of Shrek 2 (2004). Is a big fan of the first "Shrek" film.
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Ranked #15 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
In 1999, he was Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for "Electra".
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In 2000, he won his first Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for his production of "The Real Thing".
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Was born in the same small Reading hospital where his wife, Kate Winslet, was born 10 years later.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1998 Tony Award as Best Director (Musical), along with collaborator Rob Marshall, for a revival of "Cabaret."
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Has a home in Cotswolds, England.
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He was awarded the 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night" performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
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He was awarded the 1989 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer as Director of Minerva Studio in Chichester, England.
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He was awarded the 1995 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Best Director for "The Glass Menagerie".
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He was awarded the 2002 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Director for both "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night" performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
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He was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of 2002 for "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" in repertory company at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
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He was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: Special for his services and contributions as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse for the past ten years.
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He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of the 1997 season for "Othello" at the Royal National Theatre.
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He was nominated for Best Director at the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for the 1998 production of "The Blue Room".
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He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1996 (1995 season) for Best Director for both "Company" and "The Glass Menagerie" at the Donmar Warehouse.
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Son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on December 22, 2003, in New York, and weighed 7 pounds and 13 ounces.
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Resides in both New York City and London, England.
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Sam married English actress Kate Winslet in the West Indies in May 2003.
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Ranked #91 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
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Taught cricket (his passion) at Summer Fields School, Oxford, UK after leaving school for a year.
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He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his services to drama.
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Educated at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, UK.
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Is a big cricket fan and is said to have incorporated the ideas of former England cricket captain Mike Brearly in his direction.
