Paul Greengrass
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 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 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.
Most directed genres
Recurring actors
- Matt Damon 4
- Julia Stiles 3
- Bill Camp 2
- Christopher Fulford 2
- Corey Johnson 2
- Jason Isaacs 2
- Joan Allen 2
- Tom Gallop 2
The career in numbers
- US$ 583 mi Total budget from 9 film(s) with data
- US$ 1.6 bi Total box office from 8 film(s) with data
- US$ 65 mi Average budget from 9 film(s) with data
- US$ 194 mi Average box office from 8 film(s) with data
- 7.0 Average rating from 10 film(s) with data
- 3.3× Return on investment from 7 film(s) with data
Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.
Films directed
| Film | Year | Budget | Box office | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Uprising
|
2026 | — | — | — |
The Lost Bus
|
2025 | US$ 90 mi | — | 7.0 |
News of the World
|
2020 | US$ 38 mi | US$ 13 mi | 6.9 |
22 July
|
2018 | US$ 20 mi | — | 7.1 |
Jason Bourne
|
2016 | US$ 120 mi | US$ 415 mi | 6.4 |
Captain Phillips
|
2013 | US$ 55 mi | US$ 219 mi | 7.5 |
Green Zone
|
2010 | US$ 100 mi | US$ 95 mi | 6.5 |
The Bourne Ultimatum
|
2007 | US$ 70 mi | US$ 443 mi | 7.4 |
United 93
|
2006 | US$ 15 mi | US$ 76 mi | 7.1 |
The Bourne Supremacy
|
2004 | US$ 75 mi | US$ 289 mi | 7.3 |
Bloody Sunday
|
2002 | — | US$ 773,228 | 7.2 |
The Theory of Flight
|
1999 | — | — | 6.3 |
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
|
1999 | — | — | 6.8 |
The Fix
|
1997 | — | — | 3.8 |
The One That Got Away
|
1996 | — | — | 6.4 |
Open Fire
|
1994 | — | — | 7.3 |
Resurrected
|
1989 | — | — | 6.4 |
