List of awards and nominations received by Sam Mendes

List of accolades received by Sam Mendes
	Mendes at the French premiere for Skyfall (2012)
Award
Accolades
Award	Wins
Totals
Wins	42
Nominations	63
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

Last updated February 22, 2023

This is a list of awards and nominations received by English film and theatre director Sam Mendes.

Major Associations
Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Olivier Awards
Tony Awards
Guild Awards
Cinema of Peace Award
Directors Guild of America Award
Producers Guild of America Award
Writers Guild of America Award
Other associations
Belgian Film Critics Association
Britannia Award
Camerimage Film Festival
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Critics' Circle Theatre Award
Drama Desk Award
Drama League Award
Directors Guild of Great Britain
Empire Awards
Evening Standard British Film Awards
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Hollywood Film Awards
Jupiter Awards
London Film Critics' Circle
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Outer Critics Circle Awards
Saturn Awards
ShoWest Convention
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Whats on Stage Award
Other awards
Notes
References

Mendes won the Academy Award for Best Director for the drama American Beauty (1999), and received three other Academy Award nominations for war epic 1917 (2019). He also received five British Academy Film Award nominations winning four awards for Skyfall (2012), and 1917 (2019). He also received two British Academy Television Award nominations for The Hollow Crown (2013, 2017). He also received four Golden Globe Award nominations winning three awards.

For his work in theatre on the West End, he received 11 Laurence Olivier Awards winning three awards. He also received two Tony Award nominations for his work on Broadway for Cabaret in 1998 and The Ferryman in 2019.

Major Associations

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. The awards, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, were first held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.^[1] Mendes has received one award from four nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Director	American Beauty	Won	^[2]
2020	Best Picture	1917	Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated

BAFTA Awards

The BAFTA Award is an annual award show presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The awards were founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others.^[3] Mendes has received four awards from five nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
2000	Best Direction	American Beauty	Nominated	^[4]
2013	Best British Film	Skyfall	Won
2020	Best Film	1917	Won
	Best Direction		Won
	Best British Film		Won
2023	Best British Film	Empire of Light	Nominated
British Academy Television Awards
2013	Best Single Drama	The Hollow Crown	Nominated	^[5]
2017	Best Mini-Series	The Hollow Crown	Nominated	^[5]

Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television.
Mendes has received three awards from four nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Director – Motion Picture	American Beauty	Won	^[6]
2009		Revolutionary Road	Nominated
2020		1917	Won
2020	Best Motion Picture – Drama (as recipient producer)	1917	Won

Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards recognise outstanding achievements in plays and musicals performed in London's West End.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Best Director of a Play	Assassins	Nominated	^[7]
1993	Best Director of a Musical	The Rise and Fall of Little Voice	Nominated
1994	Best Director of a Musical	Cabaret	Nominated
1994	Best Musical Revival	Cabaret	Nominated
1995	Best Director of a Musical	Oliver!	Nominated
1996	Best Director	Company and The Glass Menagerie	Won
1998		Othello	Nominated
1999		The Blue Room	Nominated
2003		Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya	Won
2018		The Ferryman	Won
2019		The Lehman Trilogy	Nominated

Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known informally as the Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League ^[8] at an annual ceremony in New York City.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Direction of a Musical	Cabaret	Nominated	^[7]
2019	Best Direction of a Play	The Ferryman	Won	^[7]
2022	Best Direction of a Play	The Lehman Trilogy	Won	^[9]

Guild Awards

Cinema of Peace Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2019	Most valuable Film Award	1917	Won	^[10]

Directors Guild of America Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
1999	Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Feature Film	American Beauty	Won	^[11]
2019	Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Feature Film	1917	Won	^[11]

Producers Guild of America Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2019	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	1917	Won	^[10]

Writers Guild of America Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2019	Best Original Screenplay	1917	Nominated	^[12]

Other associations

Belgian Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2020	Grand Prix	1917	Won

Britannia Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2015	John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing	—	Won

Camerimage Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2022	Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Director	Empire of Light	Awarded	^[13]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1999	Best Director	American Beauty	Won
2020	Best Picture	1917	Nominated
2020	Best Director	1917	Won^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Critics' Circle Theatre Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1989	Most Promising Newcomer	The Cherry Orchard	Won
1995	Best Director	The Glass Menagerie	Won
2002	Best Director	Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night	Won

Drama Desk Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1998	Outstanding Director of a Musical	Cabaret	Nominated
2003	Outstanding Director of a Play	Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night	Nominated
2012		Richard III	Nominated
2019		The Ferryman	Won

Drama League Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2022	Outstanding Director of a Play	The Lehman Trilogy	Nominated	^[14]

Directors Guild of Great Britain

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2005	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won

Empire Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2012	Best Director	Skyfall	Won

Evening Standard British Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2012	Film of the Year	Skyfall	Won

Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1992	Best New Comedy	The Rise and Fall of Little Voice	Won
2002	Director of the Year	Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night	Won
2017	Best Director	The Ferryman	Won

Hollywood Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2005	Best Director	Jarhead	Won

Jupiter Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2012	Best International Film	Skyfall	Won

London Film Critics' Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
1999	Director of the Year	American Beauty	Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
1999	Best Director	American Beauty	Won

Outer Critics Circle Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2019	Outstanding Director of a Play	The Ferryman	Won
2022	Outstanding Director of a Play	The Lehman Trilogy	Won	^[15]

Saturn Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2012	Best Action or Adventure Film	Skyfall	Won

ShoWest Convention

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2002	USA Director of the Year	Road to Perdition	Won

Toronto International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
1999	People's Choice Award	American Beauty	Won

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2002	Golden Lion	Road to Perdition	Nominated

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2002	Best Director	Road to Perdition	Won

Whats on Stage Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2018	Best Director	The Ferryman	Won

Other awards

Year	Award	Work	Result
2012	The 2012 Kermode Award for Best Director	Skyfall	Won
1993	Times Critics Award for his work at the Donmar		Receptor
2000	The Hamburg Shakespeare Prize		Receptor
2002	South Bank Show Award	Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night	Won
2003	Society of London Theatre Special Award		Receptor

Notes

↑ Tied with Bong Joon-ho for Parasite .

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References

↑ "About the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
↑ "Sam Mendes". oscars.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.
↑ Newcomb, Horace (February 19, 2019). Encyclopedia of Television. Taylor & Francis. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-135-19479-6.
↑ "Sam Mendes". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.
↑ "Sam Mendes". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.
↑ "Sam Mendes - Golden Globes". goldenglobes.com . Retrieved October 4, 2021.
1 2 "Sam Mendes Tony Awards Info".
↑ Gans, Andrew (December 18, 2007). "League of American Theatres and Producers Announces Name Change" Archived December 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine . Playbill . Retrieved September 13, 2013. The League of American Theatres and Producers was renamed "The Broadway League".
↑ "Tony Awards 2022". Tony Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
1 2 "Nominations 2020".
↑ "DGA Awards Honor Sam Mendes for 1917 [Full Winners List]". Forbes .
↑ "WGA Awards: 'Parasite', 'Jojo Rabbit' Take Top Film Honors; HBO Sweeps Key TV Nods with 'Succession', 'Barry' & 'Watchmen' – the Complete List of Winners". 2 February 2020.
↑ Caranicas, Peter (2022-10-18). "Camerimage Festival to Honor 'Empire of Light' Director Sam Mendes". Variety. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
↑ "2022 Drama League Awards | Drama League Awards". 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
↑ "71st Outer Critics Circle Awards". Outer Critics Circle Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-17.

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[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[15] Tied with Bong Joon-ho for Parasite .

[2] "About the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2015.

[3] "Sam Mendes". oscars.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.

[4] Newcomb, Horace (February 19, 2019). Encyclopedia of Television. Taylor & Francis. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-135-19479-6.

[5] "Sam Mendes". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.

[6] "Sam Mendes". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved October 4, 2021.

[7] "Sam Mendes - Golden Globes". goldenglobes.com . Retrieved October 4, 2021.

[Sam_Mendes_Tony_Awards_Info-8] 1 2 "Sam Mendes Tony Awards Info".

[9] Gans, Andrew (December 18, 2007). "League of American Theatres and Producers Announces Name Change" Archived December 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine . Playbill . Retrieved September 13, 2013. The League of American Theatres and Producers was renamed "The Broadway League".

[10] "Tony Awards 2022". Tony Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-09.

[:0-11] 1 2 "Nominations 2020".

[12] "DGA Awards Honor Sam Mendes for 1917 [Full Winners List]". Forbes .

[13] "WGA Awards: 'Parasite', 'Jojo Rabbit' Take Top Film Honors; HBO Sweeps Key TV Nods with 'Succession', 'Barry' & 'Watchmen' – the Complete List of Winners". 2 February 2020.

[14] Caranicas, Peter (2022-10-18). "Camerimage Festival to Honor 'Empire of Light' Director Sam Mendes". Variety. Retrieved 2022-10-24.

[16] "2022 Drama League Awards | Drama League Awards". 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-04-25.

[17] "71st Outer Critics Circle Awards". Outer Critics Circle Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-17.

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Awards and nominations
Feature films	American Beauty (1999) Road to Perdition (2002) Jarhead (2005) Revolutionary Road (2008) Away We Go (2009) Skyfall (2012) Spectre (2015) 1917 (2019, also wrote) Empire of Light (2022, also wrote)
Related	Alfred Mendes (grandfather) Donmar Warehouse Neal Street Productions