Luis García Berlanga

Luis García Berlanga

Directing

Awards

Nominated for 2 Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay Awards

Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay 2 nominated

  • 1994 Best Original Screenplay Nominated Todos a la cárcel
  • 1988 Best Original Screenplay Nominated

Goya Award for Best Director 1 won

honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense 1 won

  • 1989 honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense Won

Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 1 won

  • 1986 the Arts Won

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One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but also valued by critics. Nevertheless, within his comic line he oscillates between tenderness and the grotesqueness of his choral comedies. Between both extremes are his first films, written in collaboration with Rafael Azcona, in which he develops a black humor, characteristic of both, corrosive denunciations of social hypocrisy and the death penalty. In recent years he was president of the Filmoteca Nacional de España and director of a collection of erotic novels and short stories.
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Filmography
Directing 24 credits
Writing 23 credits
Acting 20 credits
Other credits 5 credits
Producing 1 credit
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