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Adam Godley
Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is an English actor.
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Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.
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Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming, OBE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy. He has also appeared in independent films like The Anniversary Party, which he co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in; and Ali Selim's Sweet Land, for which he won an Independent Spirit award as producer.
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (, ; – ) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author from New York City. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
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Bill Nighy
William Francis "Bill" Nighy (, ; born 12 December 1949) is an English actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with ''The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womanizer Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital". He became known around the world in 2003 as Billy Mack, the aging pop star in Love Actually, and in the same year played James Mortmain, the eccentric husband struggling to keep his family afloat in a decaying English castle, in I Capture the Castle''.
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Bob Fosse
Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning for his direction of Cabaret. He was closely identified with his third wife, Broadway dancing star Gwen Verdon. She was both the dancer/collaborator/muse upon whom he choreographed much of his work and, together with dancer/choreographer Ann Reinking, a significant guardian of the Fosse legacy after his death.
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Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times. He is the producer of such shows as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Martin Guerre.
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Catherine O'Hara
'''Catherine Anne O'Hara' (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone and, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and also in the mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration. Most lately, she has appeared in the 2010 film Killers and the HBO movie Temple Grandin'', for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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David Leveaux
David Leveaux (born 13 December 1957) is a U.K. theatre director who has been nominated for five Tony Awards as director of both plays and musicals. He directs both in the UK, working at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida Theatre, and the Donmar Warehouse, and on Broadway, and also in Tokyo.
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Edward Bond
Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and still remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays and the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society and of his theories on drama.
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English people
The English (from ) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens.
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Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.
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Griff Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953), better known as Griff Rhys Jones is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter and personality. He came to national attention in Britain in the 1980s when he appeared in the BBC television comedy sketch series ''Not the Nine O'clock News and later with fellow comedian Mel Smith, Alas Smith and Jones''. With Smith, he founded television production company Talkback Productions, now part of RTL Group. He went on to develop a career as a television presenter and writer, as well as continuing with acting work.
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, left wing political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pinter's writing career spanned over 50 years and produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), ''The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth'' (2007). He directed almost 50 stage, television, and film productions and acted extensively in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
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Harold Prince
Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, and characters who sing and dance with thematic import.
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Iain Glen
Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish film and stage actor.
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Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as "Bubble" on the cult TV series Absolutely Fabulous - as well as her distinctive, rich voice.
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Jew
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Jim Cartwright
Jim Cartwright (born 27 June 1958) is an English dramatist.
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Jim Threapleton
James "Jim" Threapleton (born 1974, North Yorkshire, England). Threapleton has worked as an assistant director on many films, including Hideous Kinky.
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John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, and played Reverend John Hale in the Tony-nominated 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Currently, he plays Sean on the Showtime series, The Big C.
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John Dossett
John Dossett is an American actor and singer.
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
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Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet, led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress.
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Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She is the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). Winslet has been acclaimed for both dramatic and comedic work in projects ranging from period to contemporary films, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicised indie films. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated for an Emmy Award for television acting.
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Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.
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Katie Mitchell
Katrina Jane Mitchell OBE (born 1964) is an English theatre director. She is an Associate of the Royal National Theatre.
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, and Superman Returns in a career which has eventually earned him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). In addition, he has won a Silver Bear, a Chlotrudis Award and a Satellite Award among others, and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal (; born November 16, 1977) is an American stage and screen actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (née Achs) and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films. Gyllenhaal later achieved recognition in a supporting role in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001). She made her break-through role in the 2002 sadomasochistic comedy Secretary, for which she received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination.
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Mary Louise Wilson
Mary Louise Wilson (born November 12, 1931) is an American stage, film and television actress.
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Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and singer best known for her comedic roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2000-2007. She most recently appeared in the 2010 films Grown Ups and MacGruber.
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Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress best known for playing Charlie Harper's neighbor/stalker Rose on Two and a Half Men, and a range of characters in films such as Up in the Air, The Informant!, Away We Go, Flags of Our Fathers, ''But I'm a Cheerleader, Shattered Glass, Ever After and Heavenly Creatures''.
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Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage (born 2 May 1962) is a British theatre director and producer, and current Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Grandage won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for Red (play).
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Miles Anderson
Miles Anderson (born 23 October 1947) is an English actor.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian.
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
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Peter Nichols
Peter Nichols (born 31 July 1927) is an English writer of stage plays, film and television.
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Portuguese people
The Portuguese () are an ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion.
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Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Maria Hall (born 19 May 1982) is an English actress. In 2003, Hall won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of ''Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared in three high-profile films, The Prestige and Vicky Cristina Barcelona'', for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category, and The Town.
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Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture Chicago.
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Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold (born 1972) is an English theatre director. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre (previously the Oxford Stage Company) and from 2010 he will be an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Sally Dexter
Sally Julia Dexter (born 15 April 1960), is an English actress of stage and screen.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
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Sara Kestelman
Sara Kestelman (born 12 May 1944 in London) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lady Frances Brandon, Jane's mother, in Lady Jane.
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Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He has been described as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."
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Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Moira Cusack (; born 18 February 1948) is an Irish stage, television and film actress. She has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll (2008).
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Sophocles
Sophocles ( Sophoklēs, his name was very likely pronounced ; (c. 497/6 BCE - winter 406/5 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-feted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles competed in around 30 competitions; he won perhaps 24 and was never judged lower than second place; in comparison, Aeschylus won 14 competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times, while Euripides won only 4 competitions.
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Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is a English actor. He won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Tammy Blanchard
Tammy Blanchard (born December 14, 1976) is an American actress. She has worked primarily in films and television, getting her professional start in the soap opera Guiding Light. For her first (and thus far only) stage appearance, she played the role of Louise/Gypsy in the musical , for which she earned both a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award. She received the Emmy Award for her portrayal of a teenage Judy Garland in the television movie .
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) born Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the Southeastern U.S. state, his father's birthplace.
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Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL (born 3 July 1937) is an influential British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy.
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Anguilla
Anguilla ( ) is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately long by wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The island's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is , with a population of approximately 13,500 (2006 estimate).
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Caribbean
The CaribbeanPronounced or . Both pronunciations are equally valid; indeed, they see equal use even within areas of the Caribbean itself. Cf. Royal Caribbean, which stresses the second syllable. In this case, as a proper noun, those who would normally pronounce it a different way may use the pronunciation associated with the noun when referring to it. More generic nouns such as the Caribbean Community are generally referred to using the speaker's preferred pronunciation.; Dutch ; or more commonly Antilles is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and North America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.
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Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse is a small not-for-profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of London, with a capacity of 250.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading ( ) is the largest town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London. For ceremonial purposes it is in the Royal County of Berkshire and has served as the county town since 1867.
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Trinidad and Tobago
The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago () is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland,' the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London.
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Charlie Rose - Sam Mendes
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- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 08 Jun 2009
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- Author: CharlieRose
Sam Mendes director of "Away We Go"
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Sam Mendes - The Works
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- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 30 Jun 2011
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Sam Mendes has proven himself as a truly visionary director with just five films. Each of them covering vastly different genres with their own unique traits and themes. 'American Beauty' being his suburban drama, 'Road To Perdition' his crime film, 'Jarhead' his war film, and so on and so forth. This is a trait that is difficult to come by with most directors. The kind who are willing to explore various forms of style and story to expand their horizons. Mendes does this so well whilst also deeply involving the audience with his leading characters. That was something that I really wanted to capture for this tribute. I hope you all enjoy it. My next director tribute will be released sometime in August. Hint: Nature and grace Clips from 'American Beauty' and 'Road To Perdition' remain courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures, © TM & Copyright 1999, 2002 Clips from 'Jarhead' remain courtesy of Universal Pictures, © TM & Copyright 2005 Clips from 'Revolutionary Road' remain courtesy of Paramount Vantage, © TM & Copyright 2008 Clips from 'Away We Go' remain courtesy of Focus Features, © TM & Copyright 2009 Music 'Dead Already' by Thomas Newman remains courtesy of Dreamworks, © TM & Copyright 1999 'Wait' by Alexi Murdouch remains courtesy of Zero Summer, © TM & Copyright 2006
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Sam Mendes on Away We Go
Listen to the entire interview here. www.wnyc.org Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes on his new film, "Away We Go." From the first original screenplay by novelists Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the film tells the story of a longtime couple expecting a baby who set out on a journey to visit friends and family and to evaluate different cities in order to decide where they should put down roots to start their family. "Away We Go" opens Friday, June 5th, at the Regal Union Square and AMC Lincoln Square in New York.
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Sam Mendes Talks About The Importance Of Good Research
Director Sam Mendes talks about the importance of good research when directing a film. CONNECT WITH AFI: facebook.com twitter.com AFI.com AFI FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com
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Sam Mendes Richard III - Epidaurus Ancient Theatre
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- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 30 Jul 2011
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The ancient theatre of Epidaurus is hosting one of the best theatre performances of the year this summer. Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey meet again, after the Oscar winning movie American Beauty and present to you Richard III -- the history play by William Shakespeare. The play is considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, and will definitely be one of summer's greatest events. So do not miss the opportunity to watch these two Oscar winners in action. The Bridge Project began in 2009 as a three year project between The Old Vic (London), BAM (USA) and Neal Street. The Bridge Project is hosted for the second time at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, following The Winter's Tale in 2009. Sam Mendes returns to the stage to direct Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey in the title role of Richard III in the final season of The Bridge Project. This transatlantic endeavour reunites them for the first time since American Beauty, for which they both won BAFTA and Academy Awards. The full company is drawn from leading American and British actors and embarks on an international tour prior to a residency at BAM in New York. Sam Mendes was founder and Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse for a decade and has directed theatre at the RSC, National Theatre, plus in the West End and on Broadway. His film credits include Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road. Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey has most recently appeared in Inherit the Wind, Speed-the-Plow, A Moon for <b>...</b>
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Sam Mendes talks with Charlie Rose
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Director Sam Mendes discusses what direction he brings to a play like "The Vertical Hour."
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Sam Mendes' Upcoming James Bond Film to Shoot In India
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Indian government reportedly clears shooting approvals for next James Bond outing to film in various locations including Delhi and Goa.
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Kate Winslet And Sam Mendes Split Up
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Golden Globes 2000 Sam Mendes Wins Best Director in a Motion Picture
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Steven Spielberg presents the Best Director in a Motion Picture award to Sam Mendes for "American Beauty." Mendes thanks the 200 people who worked with him on the film, Dreamworks, his cast, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and many others. License Golden Globe Awards Clips Here: dickclarklicensing.com
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Sam Mendes interview for the movie Jarhead
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Chuck the Movieguy interviews Sam Mendes for the movie Jarhead
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Director Sam Mendes Interview "Away We Go"
www.mannythemovieguy.com I have nothing but great admiration for the cast and crew of "Away We Go." Director Sam Mendes crafted a sweet, simple film about parenting, nesting, and the family unit. In this interview, Director Sam Mendes and I talked about Chemistry between Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski Why follow-up "Revolutionary Road" with "Away We Go" Working with all these great actors Script by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida Using music for "Away We Go" Where is home? HAVE FUN!
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![Away We Go - Official Trailer [HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20111007161622im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dEp3NKG2U5U/0.jpg "Away We Go - Official Trailer [HD]")
Away We Go - Official Trailer [HD]
"Release Date: 11 June 2009 Genre: Comedy Cast: John Krasinski, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Schneider Director: Sam Mendes Writers: Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida Studio: Focus Features Plot: A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the US in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover ""home"" on their own terms for the first time."
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Director Sam Mendes Interview
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Director Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road, American Beauty, Road to Perdition) explores the comedic twists and emotional turns in one couple's journey across contemporary American in his new film, AWAY WE GO opening June 5th. CineMovie and our Viviana Vigil is with the critically-acclaimed filmmaker in our one-to-one interview. Kate Winslet's husband talks going green with this movie.
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Sam Mendes - American Beauty - Kiss.mpg
The kiss scene between Spacey and Suvari from the movie American Beauty,
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Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes
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Richard III at The Old Vic - starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes.mov
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Sam Mendes returns to the stage to direct Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey in the title role of Richard III in the final season of The Bridge Project. This transatlantic endeavour reunites them for the first time since American Beauty, for which they both won BAFTA and Academy Awards.
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Revolutionary Road Official Trailer 2008
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A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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Kate Winslet And Sam Mendes Split Up
video.news.sky.com Oscar winners Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have announced they are to separate. The couple's lawyers said they were parting "by mutual agreement". Skys Showbiz Correspondent Steve Hargrave has more.
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![Road To Perdition Trailer (2002) [HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20111007161622im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/k1iCd___dNY/0.jpg "Road To Perdition Trailer (2002) [HD]")
Road To Perdition Trailer (2002) [HD]
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©2002 DreamWorks LLC. DreamWorks LLC, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures are the sole owners of this trailer. I do not claim ownership. This trailer is for film promotion and viewing only. Do not duplicate or distribute without the consent of DreamWorks LLC, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures. The following trailer is presented in Full 1080p. (This was taken from a 1080p source. It is not an up-conversion of a lower resolution version of the trailer.) Captions also available. "Hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), known in his 1930s Chicago world as The Angel of Death, is on the run after his wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son (Liam Aiken) are murdered. With his surviving son (Tyler Hoechlin) in tow, Michael sets out to exact brutal vengeance. Complicating matters in this crime actioner are a reporter (Jude Law), Al Capone's enforcer (Stanley Tucci) and other shady characters. " Netflix.com. Directed By - Sam Mendes Produced By- Richard D. Zanuck, Dean Zanuck Screenplay By - David Self Based on the Graphic Novel By - Max Allen Collins Cinematography By - Conrad L. Hall Starring- Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Jude Law, Anthony LaPaglia, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh Music By- Thomas Newman
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Kate Winslet on working with her husband Sam Mendes
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Kate Winslet on working with her husband Sam Mendes on Revolutionary Road
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Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes Split!
Oscar winners Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes announce they separated earlier this year.
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Rebecca Hall Sam Mendes' Affair Scandal
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Is there a Rebecca Hall, Sam Mendes' affair? Rumor has it that director Sam Mendes' split from Kate Winslet was a result of him fooling around with the British Actress. Get the details here - www.rightcelebrity.com
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Away We Go, Sam Mendes - Launch of EIFF 2009
FilmLive.TV at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009. FilmLive.TV is back again for another year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009. Today we were at the Red Carpet Premiere of Sam Mendes's "Away We Go". Oscar®-winning heavyweight Sam Mendes (American Beauty; Road to Perdition; Revolutionary Road) here displays a happy knack for delicate, dark-witted indie comedy, deftly handling a laugh-a-minute script by celebrated authors Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers. Join us over the next 10 days where we will be brining you exclusive, industry focused interviews covering things like; new talent, the film business and new technology. Produced in association with EIFF, Cameron Presentations, Audio Network, Lebowskis Edinburgh and Mallard Productions. Brought to you by FilmLive.TV @ www.filmlive.tv
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Portrait of Irish actor Ciarán Hinds is in New York after a performance of the play by Conor McPherson, The Seafarer, 9 February 2008
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Karl Urban, Chris Pine, executive producer Bryan Burk, Zachary Quinto, director J. J. Abrams, Eric Bana, and John Cho at the Sydney Opera House premiere of the film on April 7, 2009.
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Bublé frequently walks through the crowd at his concerts, as shown here in Philadelphia on 8 August 2007.
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Manson performing live with the band of the Version 2.0 tour.
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In this Sunday Feb, 24, 2009 file photo, actress Kate Winslet and husband director Sam Mendes arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. London-based law firm Schillings announced Monday March 15, 2010, that the couple have separated.
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Director Sam Mendes and his wife Kate Winslet
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With her husband, "Revolutionary Road" director Sam Mendes, right, Kate Winslet poses with awards for best actress drama for “Revolutionary Road” and supporting actress for “The Reader” backstage at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards
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Director Sam Mendes, left, Kate Winslet, center, and Leonardo DiCaprio pose together at the premiere of "Revolutionary Road" in Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 15, 2008.
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Sam Mendes
| Name | Sam Mendes |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Samuel Alexander Mendes |
| Birth date | August 01, 1965 |
| Birth place | Reading, Berkshire, England |
| Occupation | Director |
| Spouse | Kate Winslet (2003–2010) (separated) |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Early years
Mendes was born in Reading, Berkshire to Valerie Helene (née Barnett), an author of children's books, and Jameson Peter Mendes, a university professor. His father is from Trinidad's ethnic Portuguese community, and his mother an English Jew. His grandfather is the Trinidadian writer Alfred Mendes. He attended Magdalen College School, Oxford and later he graduated from Cambridge with a BA in English.Mendes first attracted attention for his production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in the West End which starred Judi Dench before he was twenty-five years old. Soon he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where his productions, many of them featuring Simon Russell Beale, included Troilus and Cressida, Richard III and The Tempest.
He has also worked at the Royal National Theatre, directing Edward Bond's The Sea, Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, and Othello with Simon Russell Beale as Iago.
Career
Stage
In 1992 Mendes was appointed artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, an intimate studio space in London's Covent Garden which he quickly transformed into one of the most exciting venues in the city. His opening production was Stephen Sondheim's Assassins which reveled in the show's dark, comic brilliance and rescued it from the critical disfavor it had suffered on its American opening. He followed this with a series of excellent classic revivals, many of which attracted some of the finest actors and biggest stars of the decade.In 1993, Mendes staged a highly acclaimed revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret starring Jane Horrocks as Sally Bowles, Alan Cumming as Emcee, Adam Godley as Cliff Bradshaw and Sara Kestelman as Frau Schneider. The production was approached with a fresh concept, differing greatly from both the original 1966 production directed by Harold Prince and the famed film version, directed by Bob Fosse. This production opened at the Donmar and received four Olivier Award nominations including Best Musical Revival, before transferring promptly to Broadway where it played for several years at the Kit Kat Club (i.e. the Stephen Sondheim Theater). The Broadway cast included Cumming once again as Emcee, with Natasha Richardson as Sally, Mary Louise Wilson as Frau Schneider and John Benjamin Hickey as Cliff. Cumming and Richardson won Tony Awards for their performances.
1994 saw Mendes stage a new production of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, produced by Cameron Mackintosh. Mendes, a long time fan of the work, worked in close collaboration with Bart and other production team members, William David Brohn, Martin Koch and Anthony Ward, to create a fresh staging of the well-known classic. Bart added new musical material and Mendes updated the book slightly, while the orchestrations were radically rewritten to suit the show's cinematic feel. The cast included Jonathan Pryce (after much persuasion) as Fagin, Sally Dexter as Nancy, and Miles Anderson as Bill Sikes. Mendes, Pryce and Dexter received Olivier Award nominations for their work on Oliver!. This production is the longest-running show ever to play at the London Palladium, closing in 1998. Mackintosh revived Mendes' production recently at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where it was re-staged by Rupert Goold.
He has also directed productions of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company (which had the first ever African American "Bobby"), Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As artistic director Mendes also gave some of the country's finest younger directors the opportunity to do some of their best work: Matthew Warchus's production of Sam Shepard's True West, Katie Mitchell's of Beckett's Endgame, David Leveaux's of Sophocles's Elektra and Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing were amongst the most critically acclaimed of the decade. The Donmar's present artistic director, Michael Grandage, directed some of the key productions of the later part of Mendes's tenure, including Peter Nichols's Passion and Privates on Parade and Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
In 2003, Mendes directed a revival of the musical Gypsy. Originally, he planned to stage this production in London's West End with an eventual Broadway transfer, but when negotiations fell through, he decided to bring it straight to New York. The cast included Bernadette Peters as Rose, Tammy Blanchard as Louise and John Dossett as Herbie.
Film
Mendes made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed and box-office success American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey. The film grossed $356.3 million worldwide and had a 2373% ROI. The film won the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mendes won a Directors Guild of America Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for directing American Beauty.Mendes's second film, in 2002, was Road to Perdition, which grossed US$181 million. The aggregate review score on Rotten Tomatoes was 82%; critics praised Paul Newman for his performance. The film was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor, and won one for Best Cinematography.
In 2005, Mendes directed the war film Jarhead. The film received mixed reviews, receiving a Rotten Tomatoes aggregate of 60%, and a gross revenue of US$96.9 million worldwide. The film focused on the boredom and other psychological challenges of wartime, instead of being a traditional combat-action film.
In 2008, Mendes directed Revolutionary Road, starring his wife, Academy Award–winner Kate Winslet, along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates. In a January 2009 interview, Mendes opened up about directing his wife for the first time:
Mendes completed work on a comedy-drama called Away We Go, which opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film follows a couple searching across North America for the perfect community in which to settle down and start a family. The film stars John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara, and Melanie Lynskey.
Mendes is starting pre-production on a film adaptation of the acclaimed 1971 Tony-winning Broadway musical Follies and has announced his intentions to film an adaptation of the novel Middlemarch in the near future.
According to ComingSoon.net, Columbia Pictures has purchased the rights to the Preacher graphic novel series and have hired Sam Mendes to direct it. He will also be an executive producer for the American movie remake of the British mini series Lost in Austen.
On 5 January 2010, news broke that Mendes was in negotiations to direct the 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise. He pulled out of negotiations to direct futuristic thriller The Hunger Games after MGM is ready to move forward with production on Bond 23, scheduled to be released on 9 November 2012.
Personal life
Mendes married British actress Kate Winslet on 24 May 2003 in Anguilla in the Caribbean. They met in 2001, when Mendes approached Winslet about appearing in a play at the Donmar Warehouse Theater, where he was then artistic director. Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on 22 December 2003. Mendes also has a stepdaughter, Mia Honey Threapleton (b. 12 October 2000), from Winslet's first marriage to assistant director Jim Threapleton. The couple announced their separation on 15 March 2010.Mendes was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
Work
Stage productions
Feature films
| Year | Film | Credited as | Oscar | Nominations | Oscar | Wins | BAFTA | Nominations | BAFTA | Wins | Golden Globe | Nominations | Golden Globe | Wins | ||
| Director | Producer | ExecutiveProducer | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | style="text-align: left;" | Yes | 8 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2002 | Yes | Yes | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2005 | style="text-align: left;" | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | style="text-align: left;" | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | style="text-align: left;" | Yes | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2008 | style="text-align: left;" | Yes | Yes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2009 | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 24 | 8 | 13 | 4 | ||||||
Awards and nominations
| ! Year | ! Award | ! Film or Stage Play | ! Result |
| 1989 | Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer | The Cherry Orchard | Won |
| 1995 | Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director | Won | |
| 1995 | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director | Won | |
| 1996 | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director | Won | |
| 1998 | Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical | Nominated | |
| Academy Award for Best Director | Won | ||
| Golden Globe Award for Best Director | American Beauty | Won | |
| 2002 | Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director | Won | |
| Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director | Won | ||
| Society of London Theatre Special Award | N/A | Won | |
| 2008 | Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture | Nominated |
References
External links
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