Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, 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 directed by Greengrass include three entries in the Bourne action-thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016). He also directed United 93 (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and was nominated for the Academy Award 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 British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.

In 2007 Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation for British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. In 2007 he was ranked 28th on EW's list of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood". In 2008 The Telegraph named him one of the most influential people in British culture. In 2017 Greengrass was awarded a fellowship by the British Film Institute.

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