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.
Sam Mendes to Receive Directing Award at Toronto Film Festival
thewrap.comDirector Sam Mendes will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Friday.Mendes will be at the festival for the Canadian Premiere of his new movie, “Empire of Light,” which stars Olivia Colman as a woman who works in a seaside movie theater in 1980s England.
It is his ninth film as a director and second as writer in a career that began with the Oscar-winning “American Beauty,” which made its world premiere at TIFF in 1999.
His other films include and “Road to Perdition,” “Revolutionary Road,” “Skyfall” and “1917.”He will receive the award as part of the TIFF Tribute Awards, which will be presented at the Fairmont Royal York hotel on Sept.
11. Previous winners of the honor, which is part of a ceremony that serves as a fundraiser for the TIFF Every Story fund, are Denis Villeneuve, Chloe Zhao and Taiki Waititi.Previously, the festival announced that the ensemble cast of “My Policeman” will receive one of two TIFF Tribute Awards for Performance.
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