# List of awards and nominations received by Sam Mendes

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. Mendes has received one award from four nominations.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2000 | Best Director | American Beauty | Won |
| 2020 | Best Picture | 1917 | Nominated |
| 2020 | Best Director | 1917 | Nominated |
| 2020 | Best Original Screenplay | 1917 | 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. Mendes has received four awards from five nominations.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 2000 | Best Direction | American Beauty | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best British Film | Skyfall | Won |
| 2020 | Best Film | 1917 | Won |
| 2020 | Best Direction | 1917 | Won |
| 2020 | Best British Film | 1917 | Won |
| 2023 | Best British Film | Empire of Light | Nominated |
| British Academy Television Awards |||||
| 2013 | Best Single Drama | The Hollow Crown | Nominated |
| 2017 | Best Mini-Series | The Hollow Crown | 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 |
| 2000 | Best Director – Motion Picture | American Beauty | Won |
| 2009 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Revolutionary Road | Nominated |
| 2020 | Best Director – Motion Picture | 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 |
| 1993 | Best Director of a Play | Assassins | Nominated |
| 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 | Best Director | Othello | Nominated |
| 1999 | Best Director | The Blue Room | Nominated |
| 2003 | Best Director | Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya | Won |
| 2018 | Best Director | The Ferryman | Won |
| 2019 | Best Director | 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 at an annual ceremony in New York City.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best Direction of a Musical | Cabaret | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Direction of a Play | The Ferryman | Won |
| 2022 | Best Direction of a Play | The Lehman Trilogy | Won |

## Guild Awards
### Cinema of Peace Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
| 2019 | Most valuable Film Award | 1917 | Won | |

### Directors Guild of America Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
| 1999 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Feature Film | American Beauty | Won | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Feature Film | 1917 | Won | |

### Producers Guild of America Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
| 2019 | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | 1917 | Won | |

### Writers Guild of America Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
| 2019 | Best Original Screenplay | 1917 | Nominated | |

## 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 | |

### 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 |

### 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 | Outstanding Director of a Play | Richard III | Nominated |
| 2019 | Outstanding Director of a Play | The Ferryman | Won |

### Drama League Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
| 2022 | Outstanding Director of a Play | The Lehman Trilogy | Nominated | |

### 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 | |

### 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 |