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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sam Mendes
Director
for Director in Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty
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In the midst of World War II, Brooklyn native Steve Rogers is determined to serve his country despite being small and frail. After multiple failed attempts to enlist, he is finally recruited by Dr. Abraham Erskine for a secret super-soldier experiment, which transforms him into the powerful Captain America. Meanwhile, in Germany, Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, seeks the Cosmic Cube to secure victory for the Nazis. Rogers, now a symbol of American strength, tours the nation to boost war morale but yearns for direct action. He gets his chance when his best friend, James "Bucky" Barnes, is captured. Rescuing Bucky and other soldiers, Rogers forms the Howling Commandos to fight against HYDRA's forces, facing various adversaries and uncovering the Red Skull's plans involving mythical creatures and advanced technology. Rogers' and Bucky's bond strengthens as they lead successful missions, but tragedy strikes when Bucky falls from a plane during a confrontation with the Red Skull. With no safe way to land the plane loaded with weapons, Rogers crashes it in the Arctic, sacrificing himself after a poignant farewell to Peggy Carter. The war ends with the Allies' victory, but Steve's fate remains a mystery until his eventual discovery decades later.
