SAM MENDES RECEIVING HIS OSCAR Note the person he mentions right at the end of his speech (3:11)
MAGIC CARPET, BY ARTIST DANIEL WURTZEL Viewed on YouTube over 2 million times. Do you think he was influenced by the film American Beauty?
Steven Spielberg was bowled over by the theatre production Cabaret and invited Sam Mendes to Los Angeles to talk about making his first movie. Over lunch, Spielberg slipped him the script for American Beauty. This is the beginning of the production that impressed Spielberg so much. CABARET, DIRECTED BY SAM MENDES