List of awards and nominations received by Sam Mendes

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List of accolades received by Sam Mendes
Mendes at the premiere of Skyfall (2012)
Totals[a]
Wins42
Nominations63
Note
  1. 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 Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He earned several honors including the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2003, and the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing in 2015. Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama in 2000 and he was knighted in the 2020.

Mendes started his career on the stage directing numerous productions on the West End. He won three Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for the Stephen Sondheim musical Company and the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie in 1996, the William Shakespeare revival Twelfth Night and the Anton Chekov revival Uncle Vanya in 2003, and the Jez Butterworth play The Ferryman in 2018. Mendes also is known for directing several productions on Broadway winning the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play twice for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. He was Tony-nominated for directing the musical Cabaret in 1998 and the play The Hills of California in 2025.

On film, he gained acclaim and prominence for directing the suburban family drama American Beauty (1999) which earned five Academy Awards including the Best Director for Mendes at the 72nd Academy Awards. Mendes also earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He directed the crime drama Road to Perdition (2002) and the 1950s romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008) earning nominations for the Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director respectively.

He expanded his career when he directed the action film Skyfall (2012), part of the James Bond franchise, for which he earned critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. He gained further acclaim for directing the World War I drama film 1917 (2019) for which he earned several accolades including three BAFTA Awards (Best Film, Best Direction, and Outstanding British Film), the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director as well as nominations for three Academy Awards (for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay).

For his work on television, he received two British Academy Television Award nominations (Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series) for the BBC Two / PBS series The Hollow Crown (2013, 2017) which adapts the plays of William Shakespeare.

Major Associations

Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1999 Best Director American Beauty Won [1]
2019 Best Picture 1917 Nominated [2]
Best Director Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2026 Best Picture Hamnet Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1999 Best Direction American Beauty Nominated [3]
2012 Best British Film Skyfall Won [4]
2019 Best Film 1917 Won [5]
Best British Film Won
Best Direction Won
2022 Best British Film Empire of Light Nominated [6]
2026 Best Film Hamnet Nominated [7]
Best British Film Won
British Academy Television Awards
2013 Best Single Drama The Hollow Crown Nominated
2017 Best Mini-Series Nominated

Critics' Choice Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Critics' Choice Awards
1999 Best Director American Beauty Won [8]
2019 Best Picture 1917 Nominated [9]
Best Director[a] Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1999 Best Director – Motion Picture American Beauty Won [10]
2008 Revolutionary Road Nominated [10]
2019 1917 Won [10]

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1993 Best Director of a Play Assassins Nominated [11]
Best Director of a Musical The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Nominated
1994 Cabaret Nominated [12]
Best Musical Revival Nominated
1995 Best Director of a Musical Oliver! Nominated [13]
1996 Best Director Company / The Glass Menagerie Won [14]
1998 Othello Nominated [15]
1999 The Blue Room Nominated [16]
2003 Twelfth Night / Uncle Vanya Won [17]
2018 The Ferryman Won [18]
2019 The Lehman Trilogy Nominated [19]
2024 The Motive and the Cue Nominated [20]

Tony Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1998 Best Direction of a Musical (with Rob Marshall) Cabaret Nominated [21]
2019 Best Direction of a Play The Ferryman Won [22]
2022 The Lehman Trilogy Won [23]
2025 The Hills of California Nominated [24]

Miscellaneous awards

Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Camerimage Film Festival 2022 Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Director Empire of Light Awarded [25]
Cinema of Peace Award 2019 Most valuable Film Award 1917 Won [26]
Directors Guild of America Award 1999 Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Feature Film American Beauty Won [27]
2019 1917 Won
Drama Desk Award 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 Awards 2022 Outstanding Director of a Play The Lehman Trilogy Nominated [28]
Empire Awards 2012 Best Director Skyfall Won
Evening Standard British Film Awards 2012 Film of the Year Skyfall Won
Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1992 Best New Comedy The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Won
2002 Director of the Year Uncle Vanya / Twelfth Night Won
2017 Best Director The Ferryman Won
Hollywood Film Awards 2005 Best Director Jarhead Won
Jupiter Awards 2012 Best International Film Skyfall Won
Producers Guild of America Award 2019 Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures 1917 Won [26]
ShoWest Convention 2002 USA Director of the Year Road to Perdition Won
Saturn Awards 2012 Best Action or Adventure Film Skyfall Won
Toronto International Film Festival 1999 People's Choice Award American Beauty Won
Venice International Film Festival 2002 Golden Lion Road to Perdition Nominated
Whats on Stage Award 2018 Best Director The Ferryman Won
Writers Guild of America Award 2019 Best Original Screenplay 1917 Nominated [29]

Critics awards

Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Belgian Film Critics Association 2020 Grand Prix 1917 Won
Critics' Circle Theatre Award 1989 Most Promising Newcomer The Cherry Orchard Won
1995 Best Director The Glass Menagerie Won
2002 Uncle Vanya / Twelfth Night Won
London Film Critics' Circle 1999 Director of the Year American Beauty Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1999 Best Director American Beauty Won
Outer Critics Circle Awards 2019 Outstanding Director of a Play The Ferryman Won
2022 The Lehman Trilogy Won [30]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2002 Best Director Road to Perdition Won

Honorary awards

Organizations Year Award Result Ref.
Britannia Award 2015 John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing Honored
Directors Guild of Great Britain 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored
Queen Elizabeth II 2000 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Honored
2020 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Honored [31]
Laurence Olivier Award 2003 Society of London Theatre Special Award Honored [32]

Notes

  1. Tied with Bong Joon-ho for Parasite.

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