Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 22, 1900
Died
Jul 29, 1983
Place of Birth
Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España
Credits
78 titles
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
Short Cuts: “The Diary of a Chambermaid” by Luis Buñuel
Original Film Writer
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Self (archive footage)
Constel·lació Portabella
(archive footage)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
Original Story
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Buñuel
Self/Archive Footage
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Self (archive footage)
Belle Toujours
Thanks
tvSSFBM EHKL
Himself (archive footage)
Speaking of Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
Eating Sea Urchins
Director
Buñuel in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
La novia de medianoche
Screenplay
A Mexican Buñuel
Self (archival)
Paco, mi padre
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Self
Buñuel
Self
A Play About Remembering and Dying
Novel
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
That Obscure Object of Desire
Screenplay
The Phantom of Liberty
Condemned Man (uncredited)
Fall of a Body
Un invité (uncredited)
The Monk
Screenplay
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Director
Johnny Got His Gun
Writer
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Self
Tristana
Director
The Milky Way
(voice) (uncredited)
Belle de Jour
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
There Are No Thieves in This Village
Simon of the Desert
Dialogue
Weeping for a Bandit
El verdugo
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
Self
Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
The Exterminating Angel
Dialogue
Viridiana
Screenplay
The Young One
Screenplay
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Director
Nazarín
Director
Death in the Garden
Director
That Is the Dawn
Writer
Cinépanorama
Self
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Director
The River and Death
Writer
Robinson Crusoe
Screenplay