Luis Buñuel

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Born

February 21, 1900

Died

July 29, 1983 (age 83)

Place of Birth

Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España

Also Known As

Luis Buñuel Portolés

루이스 부뉴엘

루이스 브뉘엘

路易斯·布努埃尔

لوئیس بونوئل

Luis Buñuel

Biography

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.

Known For

Filmography

2025FilmMemoria de Los Olvidadosas Self (archive footage)2024FilmConstel·lació Portabellaas (archive footage)2022FilmDeneuve, la reine Catherineas Self (archive footage)2020FilmLe Fantôme de Laurent Terzieffas Self (archive footage)2018FilmJeanne Moreau: Free Spiritas Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2017FilmThe Incredible Mr. Piccolias Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2015FilmTras Nazarin: Following Nazarinas Self (archive footage)2012FilmDiscovering Buñuelas Self/Archive Footage2010FilmCatherine Deneuve, belle et bien làas Self (archive footage)2001FilmtvSSFBM EHKLas Himself (archive footage)2000FilmSpeaking of Buñuelas Self (archive footage)2000FilmBuñuel in Hollywoodas Self (archive footage)1998FilmLes paradoxes de Buñuelas Self (archive footage)1997FilmA Mexican Buñuelas Self (archival)1984FilmThe Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuelas Self1984FilmBuñuelas Self1978TVEncyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinémaas Self (archive footage)1974FilmThe Phantom of Libertyas A Condemned Man (uncredited)1973FilmFall of a Bodyas Un invité (uncredited)1971FilmThe Castaway on the Street of Providenceas Self1969FilmThe Milky Wayas (voice) (uncredited)1967FilmBelle de Jouras Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)1965FilmThere Are No Thieves in This Villageas Cura1964FilmWeeping for a Banditas El verdugo1964FilmLuis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre tempsas Self1956TVCinépanoramaas Self1954TVReflets de Cannesas Self1953FilmThe Proud and the Beautifulas Smuggler (uncredited)1930FilmL'Âge d'oras (uncredited)1929FilmUn Chien Andalouas Man in Prologue (uncredited)1929FilmMontparnasse1926FilmMaupratas Monk / Guardsman1926FilmCarmenas Contrebandier chez lillas pastia

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