List of awards and nominations received by Sam Mendes

This is a 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)
Accolades Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 5 BAFTA Film Awards 5 8 BAFTA TV Awards 0 2 Critics' Choice 2 3 Golden Globes 2 3 Olivier Awards 3 12 Tony Awards 2 4
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Wins	42
Nominations	63
Note [a] 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.

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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.