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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 vs The Winter Soldier
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The movie opens as Steve Rogers meets with Nick Fury and Agent Clint Barton. Nick explains to Steve that over the 70 years he was in the ice and the 5 he's been active, Hydra has started to show back up as he already knows, and now a terrorist called the Winter Soldier has been attacking S.H.I.E.L.D left and right for the last 4 months. They attribute his strength and speed to the same serum that gave Steve his powers. Nick introduces Steve to Clint, who will be helping him on this mission to locate the Winter Soldier. The two track the Soldier to an abandoned warehouse where Steve meets the soldier face to face. Steve realizes this soldier is far too strong and tries to leave but the Soldier gets a hold of Steve's shield and takes it. Steve and Clint arrive back where Clint gives Nick a hard-drive with blueprints for a particle accelerator on it belonging to Hydra. Nick recognizes the logo on the files as the Intelligencia branding. Steve and Clint go back out and eventually use the drive to track down the Hydra outpost where the blueprints were supposed to be delivered. Steve confronts the Soldier and finally realizes it, it's Bucky Barnes, his old war buddy who died saving him. The two fight while S.H.I.E.L.D and starts seizing control of the outpost. They realize they have more copies of the blueprints. Steve gets his shield back but is taken down. Bucky looks at him carefully and surprisingly spares him before leaving. Steve gets up and Clint tells him they'll find him.
