Paul Greengrass

Directing

Born: 1955-08-13
From: Cheam, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1

Biography

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist. One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of the Bourne action-thriller film series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016). He also directed United 93 (2006), for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director; as well as Green Zone (2010) and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won the Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards. In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28th on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007. In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Greengrass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations2 won · 4 nominated

🏆 Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2022
🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

United 93

2007
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

United 93

2007
Nominated

European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director

Bloody Sunday

2002
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Film

Bloody Sunday

2002
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Screenwriter

Bloody Sunday

2002

Acting10 titles

Directing21 titles

Writing12 titles

Production8 titles