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  • BIRTH 21/02/1900
  • DEATH 29/07/1983
  • Country Spain
  • MOVIES 8
  • DIRECTOR 25
  • SCRIPT 24
  • PRODUCTION 3

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire.

Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling.

Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.

Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.

Luis Buñuel

Movies (8)

Belle de jour
Belle de jour
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
Llanto por un bandido
Llanto por un bandido
El verdugo
Un chien andalou
Un chien andalou
Man in Prologue (uncredited)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
El náufrago de la Calle Providencia
El náufrago de la Calle Providencia
Himself
L'Âge d'or
L'Âge d'or
(uncredited)
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli
L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Director (25)

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
La Voie lactée
La Voie lactée
Belle de jour
Belle de jour
Viridiana
Viridiana
El ángel exterminador
El ángel exterminador
La fièvre monte à El Pao
La fièvre monte à El Pao
Él
Él
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Las Hurdes
Las Hurdes
La ilusión viaja en tranvía
La ilusión viaja en tranvía
La Mort en ce jardin
La Mort en ce jardin
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Simón del desierto
Simón del desierto
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
La hija del engaño
La hija del engaño
Abismos de pasión
Abismos de pasión
L'Âge d'or
L'Âge d'or
Ensayo de un crimen
Ensayo de un crimen
Los olvidados
Los olvidados
The Young One
The Young One
Un chien andalou
Un chien andalou
Cet obscur objet du désir
Cet obscur objet du désir
Tristana
Tristana
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Nazarín
Nazarín

Script (24)

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Belle de jour
Belle de jour
La Voie lactée
La Voie lactée
Viridiana
Viridiana
El ángel exterminador
El ángel exterminador
La fièvre monte à El Pao
La fièvre monte à El Pao
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Él
Él
Un chien andalou
Un chien andalou
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
La Mort en ce jardin
La Mort en ce jardin
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Simón del desierto
Simón del desierto
Las Hurdes
Las Hurdes
La Chute de la maison Usher
La Chute de la maison Usher
The Young One
The Young One
Abismos de pasión
Abismos de pasión
L'Âge d'or
L'Âge d'or
Ensayo de un crimen
Ensayo de un crimen
Tristana
Tristana
Cet obscur objet du désir
Cet obscur objet du désir
Los olvidados
Los olvidados
Nazarín
Nazarín

Production (3)

Tristana
Tristana
Un chien andalou
Un chien andalou
Las Hurdes
Las Hurdes