Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass CBE
Greengrass at the Bourne Ultimatum premiere in Hollywood, 2007
Born	(1955-08-13) 13 August 1955 (age 68) Cheam, Surrey, England
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge
Occupations	Film director screenwriter producer
Years active	1978–present
Board member of	Directors UK (president)

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955)^[1] is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.

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 British Academy Television Award.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2] In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture.^[3] In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.^[4][5]