Sam Mendes Wins Best Director at Golden Globes 2020 for '1917'

Sam Mendes accepts his award on stage at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 54-year-old filmmaker won the award for Best Director for his new movie 1917!

Sam was nominated in the category with Parasite‘s Bong Joon-ho, Joker‘s Todd Phillips, The Irishman‘s Martin Scorsese, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘s
Quentin Tarantino.

This is Sam‘s second win at the Golden Globes. He was previously a winner in 2000 for his film American Beauty and he was nominated again in 2009 for Revolutionary Road.