Sam Mendes Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film "American Beauty" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film "Road to Perdition" (2002), and the "James Bond" films "Skyfall" (2012) and "Spectre" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals "Cabaret" (1994), "Oliver!" (1994), "Company" (1995), and "" (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2013). In 2000 Mendes was appointed
The James Bond Dossier Jeremy Black, an analysis of the cultural politics of the Bond books and films; "James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever" (2006), edited by James B. South and Jacob M. Held, a collection of essays which discuss ethical and moral issues arising out of the Bond stories; and Simon Winder's "The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond" (2006), a discussion of how post–Second World War England is represented in the novels and films. The James Bond Dossier The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James