FILM DIRECTOR

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 1,888,344 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Paul Greengrass is the 621st most popular film director (down from 562nd in 2019), the 2,303rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,140th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Paul Greengrasses by language

Over the past year Paul Greengrass has had the most page views in the with 170,463 views, followed by French (16,245), and Russian (12,265). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Welsh (52.25%), Malagasy (46.95%), and Serbian (42.94%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Paul Greengrass ranks 621 out of 2,041. Before him are Jean Rollin, Georges Franju, Andrew Birkin, Tran Anh Hung, Richard C. Sarafian, and John Madden. After him are Arnold Fanck, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Sergei Gerasimov, Peter Hyams, Yuri Ilyenko, and Alberto Cavalcanti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Paul Greengrass ranks 174. Before him are William Forsythe, Steve Berry, Thierry Breton, Yasmina Khadra, Kate Mulgrew, and Philippe Streiff. After him are Alan Sokal, Alberto Iglesias, Mike Porcaro, Lindsey Graham, Johnnie To, and Philip H. Dybvig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Greengrass ranks 2,303 out of 8,785. Before him are Jimmy Somerville (1961), Joseph Raphson (1648), Alan Gardiner (1879), John Madden (1949), Al Stewart (1945), and David Stirling (1915). After him are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Lullus (710), Jackie Oliver (1942), Claude Rains (1889), Teddy Sheringham (1966), and Veronica Cartwright (1949).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Paul Greengrass ranks 49. Before him are Michael Powell (1905), Norman McLaren (1914), Nicolas Roeg (1928), John Glen (1932), Andrew Birkin (1945), and John Madden (1949). After him are Robert Stevenson (1905), Terence Davies (1945), Richard Marquand (1937), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), James Whale (1889), and Stephen Daldry (1960).

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Filmography

The Bourne Ultimatum
Director
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
Aug 3o 20077.426 / 10
Captain Phillips
Director
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Oct 10o 20137.55 / 10
The Bourne Supremacy
Director
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Jul 23o 20047.318 / 10