Birthplace: Cheam, Surrey, England

theOscarSite Bio: Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a Super-8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.

After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada Television School and spent the first ten years of his career roving global hot spots for the hard-hitting documentary series, "World in Action." By this time he became very interested in the Northern Ireland conflict.

In 1989, he directed his first fiction movie, RESURRECTED, that won an award in Berlin. He continued his career as a fiction filmmaker with a serial of TV movies dealing with social and political issues: "Open Fire" (a police scandal about a policeman accused of murder), "The One That Got Away" (about a military operation during the first Gulf War).

His documentary style became more dynamic and intense with each movie. In 2002, BLOODY SUNDAY achieved international acclamation and won the first prize in the Berlin Festival. After that he continued his career in the United States with THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (2004) and, later, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) starring Matt Damon.

Greengrass is perhaps best known, though, for his 2006 film UNITED 93, a real-time account of the events on one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, PA when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. Greengrass was nominated for an Oscar^® and won a BAFTA and several film citics' awards for his direction of the film.

Upcoming projects for Greengrass include GREEN ZONE and THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT (both scheduled for 2009) and an untitled "Jason Bourne" project, announced for release in 2010.

· Achievement in Directing 2006: UNITED 93