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Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass

Known For Directing
Birthday Aug 13, 1955 (70)
Birthplace Cheam, Surrey, England, UK
Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist. One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of t ... he 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 nomination for Best Director; 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. In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28th 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Greengrass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography

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News of the World

News of the World

2020

Screenplay

22 July

22 July

2018

Writer

Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne

2016

Writer

United 93

United 93

2006

Screenplay

Omagh

Omagh

2005

Writer

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

2002

Screenplay

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1996

Screenplay

Open Fire

Open Fire

1994

Writer

News of the World

News of the World

2020

Director

22 July

22 July

2018

Director

Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne

2016

Director

Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

2013

Director

Green Zone

Green Zone

2010

Director

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007

Director

United 93

United 93

2006

Director

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy

2004

Director

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

2002

Director

The Theory of Flight

The Theory of Flight

1999

Director

The Fix

The Fix

1997

Director

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1996

Director

Open Fire

Open Fire

1994

Director

Resurrected

Resurrected

1989

Director

Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne

2016

Producer

Green Zone

Green Zone

2010

Producer

United 93

United 93

2006

Producer

Omagh

Omagh

2005

Producer

Organization Category Movie
Golden Globes Best Actor United 93 Nominated
BAFTA Awards Best Director United 93: The Families and the Film Nominated
Venice Film Festival Best Director United 93 Nominated
Television Credits

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Five Came Back

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 31, 2017

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 02, 2015

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