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Luis Buñuel
Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España
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 cons…
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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.
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2026
Short Cuts: “The Diary of a Chambermaid” by Luis Buñuel
Movie Original Film Writer
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2025
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Constel·lació Portabella
Movie (archive footage)
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2022
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2017
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
Movie Original Story
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2017
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Discovering Buñuel
Movie Self/Archive Footage
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2010
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
Belle Toujours
Movie Thanks
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2001
tvSSFBM EHKL
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2000
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Eating Sea Urchins
Movie Director
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2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
La novia de medianoche
Movie Screenplay
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1997
A Mexican Buñuel
Movie Self (archival)
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1992
Paco, mi padre
Movie
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1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Movie Self
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1984
Buñuel
Movie Self
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1984
A Play About Remembering and Dying
Movie Novel
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1977
That Obscure Object of Desire
Movie Director
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1974
The Phantom of Liberty
Movie Condemned Man (uncredited)
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1973
Fall of a Body
Movie Un invité (uncredited)
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1972
The Monk
Movie Screenplay
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1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Movie Director
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1971
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie Writer
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1971
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Movie Self
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1970
Tristana
Movie Director
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1969
The Milky Way
Movie (voice) (uncredited)
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1967
Belle de Jour
Movie Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
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1965
Simon of the Desert
Movie Director
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1964
Weeping for a Bandit
Movie El verdugo
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1964
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
Movie Self
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1964
Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie Director
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1962
The Exterminating Angel
Movie Director
