List of awards and nominations received by Sam Mendes

List of accolades received by Sam Mendes

Mendes at the French premiere for Skyfall (2012)
Accolades Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 4 BAFTA Film Awards 4 5 BAFTA Television Awards 0 2 Directors Guild of America Award 2 2 Golden Globe Awards 3 4 Writers Guild of America Awards 0 1
Totals [a]
Wins	42
Nominations	63
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge 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.

This is a list of awards and nominations received by British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter Sam Mendes.

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		Empire of Light	Nominated
British Academy Television Awards
2013	Best Single Drama	The Hollow Crown	Nominated	[5]
2017	Best Mini-Series		Nominated

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
	Best Motion Picture – Drama (as recipient producer)		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]
	Best Director of a Musical	The Rise and Fall of Little Voice	Nominated
1994		Cabaret	Nominated
	Best Musical Revival		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
2022		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		1917	Won

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	Ref
1999	Best Director	American Beauty	Won
2020	Best Picture	1917	Nominated
	Best Director		Won [a]

Critics' Circle Theatre Award

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

Drama Desk Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
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	Ref
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		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 annual Hamburg Shakespeare Prize		Receptor
2002	South Bank Show Award	Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night	Won
2003	Society of London Theatre Special Award		Receptor

Notes

1. Tied with Bong Joon-ho for Parasite .

References

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