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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 Wolverine III Doomsday
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When William Stryker, the head of the Mutant Control Agency starts an initiative to cure all mutants of the X-Gene, he starts camps where he keeps innocent mutants to experiment on, but this isn't enough. In 10 days Stryker will unleash a time bomb that could release enough of the cure in a gaseous form to fill all of New England. Victor Creed aka Sabretooth has been Stryker's prisoner and key to his experiments. Due to Sabretooth's healing factor, he can regenerate past the cure so once Sabretooth can't regenerate, Stryker will know which version of the cure to put in the bomb. Meanwhile Professor X has been watching and sends Logan, the Wolverine to work on a rescue mission, what they don't know is that none other than Captain America is on this mission as well as a part of S.H.I.E.L.D's mutant protection program started by Nick Fury as a way to honor his dad's old friend, Logan. Both Logan and Steve Rogers come in contact and have to work together. They save Sabretooth who finally makes peace with his brother and helps them stop the bomb, that has just been finished, meaning Sabretooth no longer has his powers. In a climactic scene Steve is trapped and Logan is given a temporary mutant cure, Sabretooth sacrifices himself to stop the bomb and save Logan, Steve, and the world. The movie ends with Logan sitting at Victor's grave as Steve offers Logan a spot in a new team being put together.
