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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.
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After the terror that was Kraven, Peter had him sent away despite wanting to end him right there. He still had the last half of Junior year to finish up. With the damage done to his suit it was basically irreparable. Gwen offers to make a new one with the same color scheme but Petwr refused, instead he wanted a new suit. Pure black. As that was going on, former Oscorp employee Max Dillon is in recovery from his incident. He is so fueled by rage from his new form and the fact Osborn and Otto wouldnt listen to him. He escapes and begins wrecking havoc on any Oscorp related facilities. Peter gets to try on his new black suit against Max Dillon now going by Electro. Peter has difficulty facing him due to the nature of his abilities. At the mid point climax he has to save Otto who begins recognizing who spidey is from matching voices with Peter Parker. While he goes after Electro hes Approached again by Black Cat who begs him for help in releasing her Father from Prison. After she convinces him by revealing her self to be Felicia he gives in. Half way through the Oscorp owned Prison gets attacked by Electro. Peter decides to bail and stop him forcing Felicias father to sacrifice himself to allow her to escape. This makes her angry at peter. During the finale Peter has rubber lining added to his suit for his final clash With Electro, finally defeating him.
