Samuel Alexander Mendes who is British film, also stage director, mostly known as Sam Mendes was born in Reading, Berkshire, England on 1 of August in 1965. Professionally active Samuel became since 1993 and already estimates net worth of $30 million. Son of Valeria, who was a writer of children books, and father Jameson, a professor of University. Sam has Italian and Portuguese blood, his grandfather was an author, Alfred Hubert Mendes, from Trinidad. Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Theater Director, Television Producer and Director for the most part led a very successful and healthy career which also accrue a very nice salary.
Sam Mendes Net Worth $30 Million
Mendes was attending the Magdalen College School and was studying in Peterhouse, Cambridge, where also was playing cricket for University. Already there, Sam showed his first signs of success in career. As Theater director, he directed many plays while working in the Marlowe Society, and even tried himself working in a Cyrano de Begarec production as director, where Tom Hollander was also casting.
Talking about theater production, during 1990s, Sam achieved big success in some of England`s most known theaters. He became popular for the state musicals as Cabaret, 1994, Oliver!, 1994, Company, 1996 and Gypsy, 2003. Also his first directed stage musical was Carlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2013.
Sam`s first movie as debut was American Beauty, 1999, where main role took Kevin Spacey. It was a big success to movies industry and he became more and more known to a public. A movie earned even $365.3 million, can you believe it? With this movie Mendes won several awards, also for The Best Director, he got Academy Award, as a result, Samuel Mendes becoming one of the sixth director in history to earn the Academy Award for his feature film debut.
Samuel was lucky from both sides as an English stage and film director who has net worth of $30 million. There are more movies which earned good salary and nominations for Golden Globe, the crime film Road to Perdition in 2002, where acts Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates, then Revolutionary Road, which was released in 2008, movie Skyfall of James Bond in 2010, which was published on the franchisee of the 50th anniversary. In 2000 Mendes was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for services to drama, and lately in the same year got the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany and one more, not less important award received in 2005, a lifetime achievement from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
You can imagine how rich is Sam Mendes, who achieved so much in his life, he can be really proud, that in such a successful career, owed not only several nominations, but has a net worth of $30 million. Mendes married British actress Kate Winslet on 24 May in 2003 and in the same year, was born their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, in New York City. In March 2010, Kate Winslet and Samuel Mendes announced their separation and then in 2011, divorced.
Golden Lion, Grand Jury Prize, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Silver Lion for Best Director, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, Satellite Award for Best Director, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, ...
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Spectre, Skyfall, American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Away We Go, Things We Lost in the Fire, Starter for 10, King Lear, Cabaret, A Discussion About Things We Lost in the Fire, Company
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In his films rain frequently marks the event of a death
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Films typically deal with a family unit, be it real or surrogate.
Often begins his films with a voice-over narration from the main character; at the end of the movie the character finishes his narration in very much the same way it began.
When you get excited, don't be afraid to leap out of your chair and sing the James Bond theme.
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When you're choosing for collaborators, do not listen to the people who tell you, "Yes, but I've never done a big movie." If they are any good, they will learn - just like I did.
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You're trying to surf the big wave, so be prepared to be wiped out - but when you catch it, it feels like nothing else.
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Tarantino, Spielberg, Nolan, Scorsese, Greengrass, J.J. and Paul Thomas Anderson all still shoot on film. There is a reason.
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You need to learn to tune out the white noise. You can not please everyone.
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You are playing roulette with someone else's money. If you are going to bet it all on black, you need to be able to explain why.
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You can only ever point the camera at one thing at a time.
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Making an action sequence is only interesting when you're in the cutting room. Up until then, it is literally the most tedious thing you will ever do.
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On the day, be prepared - but also be prepared to make shit up.
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Get in touch with your inner 12 year old. He or she was an interesting kid.
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[on Away We Go (2009)] All my films are linked by similar concerns, if you look below the surface. They're all about one or more people who are lost and trying to find a way through. It's no different with this one, it just happens that they do find a way through.
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I am fascinated by America, no question about that. I will stop making films about it eventually, though, because I think there's a limited amount to say. But I am drawn to it. I don't think it's weird for an outsider to go and make movies that are quintessentially American. I think the 20th century shows that there is a tradition of people being drawn to America as the site of the great mythic landscape. You can tell big stories there that you might not be able to tell with such scale and grace elsewhere.
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Natasha combined the best of Redgrave and Richardson: the enormous depth and emotional force of a great actor on the one hand, and the intelligence and objectivity of a great director on the other. She was one of a kind, a magnificent actress. She was also an amazing mother, a loyal friend, and the greatest and most generous host you could ever hope to meet. It defies belief that this gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman is gone. (on Natasha Richardson's tragic death.)
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[on Stanley Kubrick] Of course, his films are all chilling. 2001 blew away the three act structure, but his other films are equally unique. We are only now catching up.
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I don't want to be known for one thing. I don't want to have an adjective based around my name. 'Lynchian', I know what that is, I know what 'Kubrickian' is, and I know what 'Bergmanesque' means. But there isn't going to be, and I don't want there to be, a 'Mendesian'.
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Regarding the different reactions of Europeans and Americans to his film, Jarhead (2005): "I feel they've understood in Europe. In America, it's like talking about a different movie. Fundamentally, "Jarhead" disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of American movies right now, which demand on some level to tell us which side they're on. In Europe, there's a sense this film comes from the tradition of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. It has more in common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. In America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that I'd failed".
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"I feel very undeserving. I feel the award is a bank loan, which I'll take out and pay back by the end of 20 years, and by then I'll feel more deserving." - On receiving his Lifetime Achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
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Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn't spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and original voice and it was a challenge I wanted to take on. Jarhead (2005) is equal parts black humor, honesty, rage, lyricism, profanity and the mixture of machismo jarhead culture. With the exception of Three Kings (1999) this is a war that has been overlooked but which has a burning relevance to what is happening right now in the Middle East."
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My process is slow and I enjoy it too much to rush. And I like to return to the theater between films. But after not doing any movies for a few years, perhaps I might do two in two years.
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If you shout in the theater, people think you've gone a bit mad. But if you raise your voice on a film set, people just work a bit harder.
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Sex. What Fun. to the students of Atlantic Theater School
He is the first Oscar-Winning director to helm a James Bond movie. He is also the first director, since John Glen, to helm two movies in a row.
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Directing "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" for the Donmar Warehouse Theatre Co. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music featuring Emily Watson. [February 2003]
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He is directing Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in the Broadway theater production of "The Vertical Hour" in New York City. [January 2007]
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Announced new film and theater production company, Scamp, with his two business partners, Pippa Harris (who heads the film division) and Caro Newling (who heads the theater division). Dreamworks is to automatically get first privileges with all of Scamp's film projects. [February 2004]
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His paternal grandparents were of Trinidad's ethnic Portuguese community. His grandfather is famed West Indian writer Alfred H. Mendes.
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It was announced in March 2010 that he and Kate Winslet had separated earlier the same year.
Suggested the idea for initiating production on "Shrek the Musical" to Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks Animation during the creation of Shrek 2 (2004). Is a big fan of the first "Shrek" film.
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Ranked #15 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
In 1999, he was Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for "Electra".
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In 2000, he won his first Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for his production of "The Real Thing".
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Was born in the same small Reading hospital where his wife, Kate Winslet, was born 10 years later.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1998 Tony Award as Best Director (Musical), along with collaborator Rob Marshall, for a revival of "Cabaret."
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Has a home in Cotswolds, England.
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He was awarded the 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night" performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
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He was awarded the 1989 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer as Director of Minerva Studio in Chichester, England.
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He was awarded the 1995 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Best Director for "The Glass Menagerie".
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He was awarded the 2002 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Director for both "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night" performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
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He was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of 2002 for "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" in repertory company at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
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He was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: Special for his services and contributions as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse for the past ten years.
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He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of the 1997 season for "Othello" at the Royal National Theatre.
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He was nominated for Best Director at the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for the 1998 production of "The Blue Room".
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He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1996 (1995 season) for Best Director for both "Company" and "The Glass Menagerie" at the Donmar Warehouse.
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Son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on December 22, 2003, in New York, and weighed 7 pounds and 13 ounces.
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Resides in both New York City and London, England.
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Sam married English actress Kate Winslet in the West Indies in May 2003.
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Ranked #91 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
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Taught cricket (his passion) at Summer Fields School, Oxford, UK after leaving school for a year.
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He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his services to drama.
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Educated at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, UK.
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Is a big cricket fan and is said to have incorporated the ideas of former England cricket captain Mike Brearly in his direction.
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