Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sally El Hosaini to Receive Honors at TIFF Tribute Awards
thewrap.comThe Toronto International Film Festival will honor composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and writer-director Sally El Hosaini at this year’s TIFF Tribute Awards.
Guðnadóttir, who has received a BAFTA, Grammy and Emmy award for her score for HBO’s “Chernobyl” along with an Oscar for “Joker,” will receive TIFF’s Variety Artisan Award, the festival said Thursday.
The composer’s most recent work will be heard by TIFF attendees in Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” a film about women in an isolated religious community discussing how to respond to the sexual abuse being committed by the men in charge.
El Hosaini will receive the Emerging Talent Award presented by MGM and will also premiere her new film “The Swimmers” at the festival’s opening night gala.
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