Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.
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Greengrass at the Bourne Ultimatum premiere in Hollywood, 2007 | |
| Born | 13 August 1955 |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Board member of | Directors UK (president) |
His early film Bloody Sunday (2002), about the 1972 shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland, won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include three in the Bourne action/thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016); United 93 (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination; Green Zone (2010); and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won the British Academy Television Award.
In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007. In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.