Carlos Saura
Directing
Born 1932-01-04
Died 2023-02-10
Huesca, Aragón, Spain
85 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Silver Bear for Best Director 2
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1
Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 1985 Best Film Not in the English Language Won Carmen
Silver Bear for Best Director 2 won
- 1968 Best Director Won Peppermint Frappé
- 1966 Best Director Won La caza
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- — Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Won
Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise 1 won
- 2023 Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise Won
Sitges Grand Honorary Award 1 nominated
- 2021 Sitges Grand Honorary Award Nominated
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Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards.
Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions.
By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100.
In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
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Filmography
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Directing
46 credits
Argentina
Sevilles
Cuentos de Borges
Faster, Faster
Cria!
Flamenco
Salomé
Marathon
Flamenco Flamenco
Ay, Carmela!
Anna and the Wolves
The King of Ads
Outrage
Little Bird
The 7th Day
Peppermint Frappé
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Cuenca
Blood Wedding
Elisa, My Life
El Dorado
Carmen
Tango
El amor brujo
Antonieta
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Sweet Hours
The Hunt
El sur
Cousin Angelica
J: Beyond Flamenco
Goya in Bordeaux
Goya, May 3rd
The Stilts
The King of All the World
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
La tarde del domingo
The Garden of Delights
I, Don Giovanni
La llamada
The Dark Night of the Soul
Mama Turns 100
Blindfolded Eyes
Sinfonía de Aragón
The Walls Can Talk
Taxi
Writing
36 credits
Argentina
Faster, Faster
Cria!
Flamenco
Salomé
Flamenco Flamenco
Ay, Carmela!
Anna and the Wolves
Outrage
Little Bird
Peppermint Frappé
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Cuenca
Blood Wedding
Elisa, My Life
El Dorado
Tango
El amor brujo
Antonieta
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Sweet Hours
The Hunt
Honeycomb
Cousin Angelica
J: Beyond Flamenco
Goya in Bordeaux
The Stilts
The King of All the World
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
La tarde del domingo
The Garden of Delights
I, Don Giovanni
The Dark Night of the Soul
Mama Turns 100
Blindfolded Eyes
Sinfonía de Aragón
Acting
16 credits
Ciné regards
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Lo + plus
Cuentos de Borges
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Carmen
Honeycomb
Critic
Letter of Sanabria
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Speaking of Buñuel
The Little Apartment
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
The Walls Can Talk
Other credits
1 credit
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