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Maguire: Smile.
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Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (Sam Mendes), born on August 1, 1965 in Reading, England, graduated from University of Cambridge , British director and producer.
In 1999, Sam Mendes directed his first film-the feature film " American Beauty ", which won the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Director and the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards in Film Category-Best Director Award
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. In 2002, with the thriller " Road to Perdition ", he won the Golden Lion Award, the main competition unit of the 59th Venice International Film Festival
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. In 2005, directed the war film " Jarhead "
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. In 2008, with the romance film " Revolutionary Road ", he was nominated for the 66th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards in the Film Category-Best Director Award
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. In 2009, he shot the feature film "Away We Go", which was selected as the opening film of the Edinburgh Film Festival
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. In 2010, Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet announced their divorce
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. In 2012, directed the feature film " Skyfall ". In 2015, directed the action thriller " Spectre ", which was nominated for the best foreign language film at the 39th Japan Academy Awards
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Early Experience
In 1970, when Sam Mendes was 5 years old, his parents divorced and he lived with his mother. His only childhood playmate was cricket. After graduating from the University of Cambridge , he joined the Chichester Festival Theatre. Since then he directed the feature film " Вишнёвый сад " starring Judith Olivia Dench , which won him the Best Newcomer Award from the Critics Association. After he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, he directed dramas such as "Troil and Clycida" and " Richard III " with Ralph Fiennes
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Performing Experience
In 1992, Sam Mendes noticed a scaffold outside a familiar building in Covent Garden, so he regarded himself as the hero who saved Doma's warehouse. In the same year, he became the artistic director of the Doma Warehouse Theatre in London. He directed the stage play "Glass Zoo" and the musical "Cabale", and won four Tony Awards including the best musical revival. In addition, he also directed the stage play "The Blue Room" starring Nicole Mary Kidman .
In 1999, Sam Mendes directed his first feature film " American Beauty ", starring Kevin Spacey , Annette Bening , Thora Birch, etc., and was nominated for the 24th Japan Film Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The 72nd Academy Awards for Best Director, the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards, Film Category-Best Director Award
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In 2002, filmed the thriller " Road to Perdition " adapted from the comic novel of the same name by Max Allen Collins , starring Tom Hanks , Paul Newman , Jude Law , Daniel Wroughton Craig, etc., won the 59th Venice International Film The main competition unit of the festival-Golden Lion Award
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In 2005, directed the war film " Jarhead ", which was adapted from "Memoirs of the Gulf War" by Anthony Swarford and co-starred by Jack Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx
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In December 2008, he directed the romance film " Revolutionary Road ", starring Kate Winslet and Leo . With this film, he was nominated for the 66th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards-Best Director Award
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In 2009, he filmed the feature film " Away We Go " co-starring John Burke Krasinski and Jeff Daniels . This is the first time Sam Mendes gave the script of his movie to someone else to write. The film was selected as the opening film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.
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In 2012, directed the feature film " Skyfall ", the first IMAX film in the history of 007 , co-starred by Daniel Wroughton Craig , Judith Olivia Dench , Javier Bardem , Ben Whishaw and Ralph Fiennes , and won the 66th British Academy of Film Awards Film Award- Nominated for the Best British Film Award and the 36th Japan Film Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film Award
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2015, directed the "007" series of 24 movies - action thriller " Specter ", Directed by Daniel Wroughton Craig , Léa Seydoux-Hélène de Clausonne Fornier , Christoph Waltz , Monica Bayrou odd starring the The film was nominated for the best foreign language film at the 39th Japan Academy Awards
. In July, Sam Mendes revealed that he would not continue to direct the series after "Spectre"
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On December 25, 2019, the directed war film "1917" was screened in North America. With this film, he was nominated for Best Director at the 92nd Academy Awards
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On July 1, 2020, Sam Mendes will be one of the producers of the new film " Beautiful Ruins " (Temporary Translation) directed by Niki Caro .
In 2021, he directed the film "Empire of Light" and served as the screenwriter of the film. This is the first time he has been a screenwriter alone
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Personal Life
family situation
Sam Mendes is the only child in the family, and his father James Peter Mendes is a retired university lecturer from Trinidad
. The mother is Jewish
and a child writer.
marital status
On May 24, 2003, Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet were married and had a son, but the marriage lasted only seven years. The two announced their divorce in 2010
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Character Evaluation
Sam Mendes has very high requirements for music, and he values music as the soul of movies. Throughout his career as a director, truthfulness has always been the highest standard he pursued, such as "American Beauty", "Revolutionary Road" and "Away We Go" in 2009 . At the same time, he is also a casual and easy-going director. He is not afraid of failure and opposes being cautious. Before marrying Kate Winslet, he was a sensitive and caring person. In the thriller "Road to Perdition", he showed how to control the story Talent, weave an all-star lineup in a patchwork pattern .
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