Paul Greengrass

10 films · 2002 to 2026

Born 13 August 1955, Cheam, Surrey, England, UK

Paul Greengrass is an English filmmaker and former journalist. He has received a BAFTA Award and an Empire Award in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at 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 Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards.

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