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Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
13 August
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pagePaul Greengrass
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 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 British Academy Television Award.
In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organization of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28 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 honored with a British Film Institute Fellowship.
