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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 GREEN ARROW II: VERTIGO
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Oliver Queen decides to devote himself fully to his crime fighting alter ego: Green Arrow, as his vigilantism is going well in the corrupt, Starling City. While on a mission, Ollie meets Dinah's younger sister, Sara Lance as the vigilante White Canary, who helps them. All seems well and good for the Green Arrow and his allies, until the arrival of a new criminal named Count Vertigo, who plans to destroy Green Arrow in every way possible. Vertigo had created a drug that causes ones dizziness untill they go full rebel. Vertigo has doused his men and several civilians with it, they run the City to oblivion. Assessing that him and the Canarys won't win, Oliver calls in an friend to help for assistance, Jack Wheeler (WildDog). (Ending: Oliver Queen hire a bunker underneath a nightclub. He sets it up and initiates Team Arrow, featuring Black Canary, White Canary, and WildDog.) [Post Credit Scene: An Archer in black is killing innocent civilians in Starling City. He is on a mission to torture and erase Green Arrow/Oliver Queen. He knows that Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow.]
