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Paul Greengrass

1955 - Today

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Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. His early film Bloody Sunday (2002), about the 1972 shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland, won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include three in the Bourne action/thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016); United 93 (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination; Green Zone (2010); and Captain Phillips (2013). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Greengrass has received more than 1,902,007 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Greengrass is the 563rd most popular film director (up from 606th in 2019), the 2,145th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,263rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 52.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Paul Greengrass ranks 563 out of 1,581. Before him are John Milius, Amos Gitai, Ján Kadár, Roger Spottiswoode, King Hu, and James Gunn. After him are Jaco Van Dormael, Mika Kaurismäki, László Benedek, Hal Roach, Jamie Uys, and Hong Sang-soo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Paul Greengrass ranks 139. Before him are Sándor Puhl, Kim Hae-sook, Ildikó Enyedi, Mayumi Tanaka, James Gosling, and Alan Sokal. After him are Mika Kaurismäki, Edwin Moses, Daniel Bertoni, Yasmina Khadra, Brian Kobilka, and Tommy Wiseau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Greengrass ranks 2,145 out of 7,765. Before him are Damien Hirst (1965), Harold Abrahams (1899), Herbert Chapman (1878), Guy Burgess (1911), Robert Brown (1921), and Alan Price (1942). After him are John Baskerville (1706), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), and Pieter de Molijn (1595).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Paul Greengrass ranks 40. Before him are Nicolas Roeg (1928), David Byrne (1952), Peter Yates (1929), John Badham (1939), Anthony Asquith (1902), and Michael Powell (1905). After him are Ken Annakin (1914), John Glen (1932), Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), George Albert Smith (1864), and Hugh Hudson (1936).

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Filmography

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