Paul Greengrass

Not to be confused with Paul Greenwood.

Paul Greengrass
CBE
Greengrass at the Bourne Ultimatum premiere in Hollywood, 2007
Born (1955-08-13) 13 August 1955 (age 69)
Cheam, Surrey, England
Alma materQueens' College, Cambridge
Occupations
Years active1978–present
Board member ofDirectors UK (president)

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955)[1] is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.

One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at 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 for Best Director nomination; 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.[2]

In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007.[3] In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture.[4] In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.[5][6]

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  2. ^ "Television in 2005 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Paul Greengrass - Biography". IMDb. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  4. ^ "The 100 most powerful people in British culture: 41-60". The Daily Telegraph. 18 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Paul Greengrass to receive BFI Fellowship at BFI London Film Festival Awards Ceremony". British Film Institute. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Harvey Weinstein's Shadow Hangs Over London Film Festival Awards". What's Worth Seeing. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017.