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person_profile-Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Died at age: 83

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Luis Buñuel

Date of Birth:

Feb 21, 1900

Country of birth:

España

Died:

Jul 29, 1983

Biography of

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 great and more influential filmmakers of all time. Buñel's works were known for their avant-garde surrealism which were also infused with political commentary.

    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.

    Buñel 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.

    Buñel 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.

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Luis Buñuel

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Filmography of

Luis Buñuel

Found 35 Movies in total

... 1977

The Phantom of Liberty

Un condamné à mort (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1974

... 1972

Tristana

Screenplay

... 1970

The Milky Way

(voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1969

Belle de Jour

Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited) ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1967

... 1965

... 1964

... 1962

... 1962

The Young One

Screenplay

... 1960

... 1959

Nazarin

Screenplay

... 1959

... 1956

... 1956

... 1955

... 1954

... 1954

... 1954

Él

Adaptation

... 1953

... 1953

... 1952

... 1952

... 1951

Susana

Editor

... 1951

... 1950

... 1949

Gran Casino

Director

... 1947

Guard! Alert!

Co-director

... 1937

Who Loves Me?

Screenplay

... 1936

L'Âge d'or

(uncredited) ( Actor )

Editor

... 1930

... 1928

Siren of the Tropics

Assistant Director

... 1927

Carmen

Contrebandier chez lillas pastia ( Actor )

Assistant Director

... 1926