Paul Greengrass  Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of historic events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. 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). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film "Omagh", which won British Academy Television Award. In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organization of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. 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. Greengrass was born 13 August 1955 in Cheam, Surrey, England. His mother was a teacher and his father a river pilot and merchant seaman. His brother, Mark Greengrass, has become a noted English historian. Greengrass was educated at Westcourt Primary School, Gravesend Grammar School and Sevenoaks School, and attended Queens' College, Cambridge. He studied English Literature at the same time as Roger Michell. Greengrass first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme "World in Action"; his investigation of timber-framed house construction has been cited as preventing its widespread adoption in Britain. At the same time he co-authored the book "Spycatcher" (1987) with Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5. It contained enough sensitive information that the British Government made an unsuccessful attempt to ban it. Greengrass moved into drama, directing non-fiction, made-for-television films such as "The One That Got Away", based on Chris Ryan's book about SAS actions in the Gulf War and "The Fix", based on the 1964 betting scandal that shook British football. His 1998 film "The Theory of Flight" starred Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter, who played a woman with motor neurone disease.