Carlos Saura

Spanish film director and photographer (1932–2023)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is  Saura and the second or maternal family name is  Atarés.

Carlos Saura

Saura in 2017

Born|

Carlos Saura Atarés

(1932-01-04)4 January 1932

Huesca, Spain

Died| 10 February 2023(2023-02-10) (aged 91)

Collado Mediano, Spain

Occupation(s)| Film director, screenwriter, photographer
Years active| 1955–2023
Notable work|

* Los golfos
* The Hunt
* Peppermint Frappé
* Honeycomb
* Ana and the Wolves
* Cousin Angelica
* Cría Cuervos
* Elisa, vida mía
* Faster, Faster
* Carmen
* Tango
* Goya in Bordeaux

Spouses|

* Adela Medrano
* Mercedes Pérez
* Eulàlia Ramon

(m. 2006)​

Partner| Geraldine Chaplin (1967–1979)
Children| 7
Relatives| Antonio Saura (brother)

Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards.

Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.[1] In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions.

By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100.

In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.

## Early life[edit]

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Saura was born in Huesca, Aragon on 4 January 1932. His father, Antonio Saura Pacheco, who came from Murcia, was an attorney and civil servant. His mother, Fermina Atarés Torrente, was a concert pianist. The second of their four children, Carlos had an older brother, Antonio Saura, and two younger sisters, María del Pilar and María de los Ángeles. Antonio became a well-known abstract expressionist painter. From their parents, the four siblings received a liberal understanding education. Because his father worked for the Ministry of the Interior, the Saura family moved to Barcelona, Valencia, and, in 1953, to Madrid. Saura's childhood was marked by the Spanish Civil War, during which the Nationalists fought against the Republicans.

Saura had vivid recollection of his childhood during the war. He later evoked some of them in his films – the games he played, and the songs he sang, as well as darker memories of bombings and hunger, blood and death. He was taught to read by a priest, a relative whom his parents sheltered from anticlerical extremists. At the war's end, Saura was separated from his parents and sent back to Huesca to live with his maternal grandmother and aunts. He described these relatives as "right wings and very religious"[citation needed] who imposed in the child the very antithesis of the liberal education he had received in the republican zone. After having studied civil engineering he began a career in the film industry on the advice of his brother Antonio Saura.[1]

## Career[edit]

During 1957–1958, Saura created Cuenca, his first film. In 1962, his film Los Golfos was recognized for its strong sociological impact in helping Spanish youth by tackling the issue of juvenile delinquency in Madrid's poorest districts. Four years later (1966), he was honored at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, where he received the Silver Bear for Best Director for his film La caza.[2] In 1967, his film Peppermint Frappé received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] He won the Golden Bear in 1981 at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival for his film Deprisa, Deprisa.[4][1]

The films La prima Angélica (Cousin Angélica) of 1973 and Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens)[n. 1] of 1975 received the special prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His film Mamá cumple 100 años was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards.[5]

Saura become known for movies featuring flamenco and other traditional dances. His Flamenco Trilogy of the 1980s includes Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), Carmen, and El amor brujo featuring the work of Spanish flamenco dancer Cristina Hoyos. He later made the movies Flamenco (1995),[6] Tango (1998), and Fados (2007).

His 1989 film La noche oscura was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.[7]

Saura in 2002

Saura considered his film on surrealist master Luis Buñuel to be his best cinematic work. In an interview with an online film magazine,[8] he said about Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (Buñuel and the table of King Solomon – 2001): "That's the greatest film I’ve ever made. I like the film but nobody else seems to like it. I’m sure Buñuel would have loved this film. But perhaps only he would have loved it. Everything you see in the film is actually based on conversations I had with him."

In 1990, he received the Goya Award for the best director and best script for ¡Ay, Carmela!. He was chosen as director for the official film of the 1992 Olympic Games of Barcelona, Marathon (1993).

In 2008, Carlos Saura was honoured with a Global Life Time Achievement Award at the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival, organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.[9]

In 2013, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala.[10]

## Personal life and death[edit]

Carlos Saura was married three times. He first married Adela Medrano.[11] They had two sons, Carlos and Antonio.[11] In 1982, he married Mercedes Pérez, with whom he had three sons, Manuel, Adrián, and Diego.[11] Between those two marriages, Saura had a son Shane with actress Geraldine Chaplin.[12] He was the father of a daughter named Anna from his third marriage to actress Eulàlia Ramon [ca; es],[11][13] whom he began a relationship in the wake of the shooting of Outrage.[14] They married in 2006.[14] His daughter Anna was his agent (as well as right hand and producer of his films) in his late years.[15][16]

He was an avid photographer and had a collection of over 600 cameras.[1] His photographs were exhibited several times.[1] He began to take photographs having reached the age of eight years, and later built his own camera by himself and became the photographer of the Granada Film Festival.[17]

Saura was a close friend of fellow Aragonese filmmaker Luis Buñuel. They met at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.[18]

Saura lived in Collado Mediano since the early 1980s.[19]

Saura died of respiratory failure in his residence of Collado Mediano on 10 February 2023 at the age of 91.[20][21][22] He was due to receive the life-achievement Goya honorary award the following day during the 37th Goya Awards.[23]

## Filmography[edit]

### Films[edit]

#### Feature films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1960  | Los golfos | Yes  | Yes  |
1963  | Llanto por un bandido | Yes  | Yes  |
1965  | Muere una Mujer | No  | Yes  |
1966  | La caza | Yes  | Yes  | also uncredited co-producer
1967  | Peppermint Frappé | Yes  | Yes  |
1968  | Stres-es tres-tres | Yes  | Yes  |
1969  | La madriguera | Yes  | Yes  |
1970  | El jardín de las delicias | Yes  | Yes  |
1973  | Ana y los lobos | Yes  | Yes  |
1974  | La prima Angélica | Yes  | Yes  |
1976  | Cría cuervos | Yes  | Yes  |
1977  | Elisa, vida mía | Yes  | Yes  |
1978  | Los ojos vendados | Yes  | Yes  |
1979  | Mamá cumple cien años | Yes  | Yes  |
1981  | Deprisa, Deprisa | Yes  | Yes  |
Bodas de sangre | Yes  | Yes  |
1982  | Dulces horas | Yes  | Yes  |
Antonieta | Yes  | Yes  |
1983  | Carmen | Yes  | Yes  | also producer
1984  | Los Zancos | Yes  | Yes  |
1986  | El amor brujo | Yes  | Yes  |
1988  | El Dorado | Yes  | Yes  |
1989  | La noche oscura | Yes  | Yes  |
1990  | ¡Ay, Carmela! | Yes  | Yes  |
Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur (TV)  | Yes  | Yes  |
1993  | ¡Dispara! | Yes  | Yes  |
1997  | Taxi | Yes  | No  |
Pajarico | Yes  | Yes  |
1998  | Tango | Yes  | Yes  |
1999  | Goya en Burdeos | Yes  | Yes  |
2001  | Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón | Yes  | Yes  |
2002  | Salomé | Yes  | Yes  |
2004  | El séptimo día | Yes  | No  |
2009  | I, Don Giovanni | Yes  | Yes  |
2021  | El rey de todo el mundo | Yes  | Yes  |

#### Short films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1957  | La tarde del domingo | Yes  | Yes  |
1991  | Oragina Commercial | Yes  | No  | advertising short made for the experimental compilation film The King of Ads
2021  | Goya: 3 de Mayo | Yes  | Yes  |

### Documentaries[edit]

#### Feature films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1992  | Sevillanas | Yes  | Yes  |
1993  | Marathon | Yes  | Yes  |
1995  | Flamenco | Yes  | Yes  |
2005  | Iberia | Yes  | Yes  | also production designer
2007  | Fados | Yes  | Yes
2010  | Flamenco, Flamenco | Yes  | Yes  |
2015  | Zonda, folclore argentino | Yes  | Yes  |
2016  | Jota de Saura | Yes  | Yes  | also art director
2018  | Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander | Yes  | Yes  |
2022  | Las paredes hablan | Yes  | Yes  | also actor

#### Short films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1955  | Flamenco | Yes  | Yes  | also producer and cinematographer
1956  | El pequeño río Manzanares | Yes  | Yes  |
1958  | Cuenca | Yes  | Yes  |
2008  | Sinfonía de Aragón | Yes  | No  |
2021  | Rosa Rosae: La Guerra Civil | Yes  | Yes  | also editor and artwork

## Selected awards and nominations[edit]

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### Academy Awards[edit]

* 1980 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Mamá cumple 100 años
* 1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Carmen
* 1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Tango

### BAFTA Award[edit]

* 1983 - Won: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film \- Carmen

### Berlin Film Festival[edit]

* 1964 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - Llanto por un bandido
* 1966 - Won: Silver Bear for Best Director at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival for his film La caza
* 1966 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - La caza
* 1968 - Won: Silver Bear for Best Director at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival for his film Peppermint Frappé
* 1968 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - Peppermint Frappé
* 1969 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - La madriguera
* 1981 - Won: Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival for his film Deprisa, deprisa
* 1989 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - La noche oscura

### Camerimage[edit]

* 1998 - Won: Special Award (Film Direction with a Special Visual Sensitivity)
* 2009 - Won: Cinematographer-Director Duo Award (shared with Vittorio Storaro)

### Cannes Film Festival[edit]

* 1960 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Los golfos
* 1973 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Ana y los lobos
* 1974 - Won: Jury Prize at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival for his film La prima Angélica
* 1974 - Nominated: Golden Palm - La prima Angélica
* 1976 - Won: Grand Prix of the Jury at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for his film Cría cuervos...
* 1976 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Cría cuervos...
* 1977 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Elisa, vida mía
* 1978 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Los ojos vendados
* 1983 - Won: Technical Grand Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival for his film Carmen
* 1983 - Won: Award for Best Artistic Contribution at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival for his film Carmen
* 1983 - Nominated: Golden Palm - Carmen
* 1988 - Nominated: Golden Palm - El Dorado

### European Film Awards[edit]

* 2004 - Won': Lifetime Achievement Award
* 2008 - Nominated: Best Documentary Award - Fados

### Golden Globe Awards[edit]

* 1978 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Cría cuervos...
* 1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Carmen
* 1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - Tango

### Goya Awards[edit]

* 1991 - Won: Goya Award for Best Director \- ¡Ay, Carmela!
* 1991 - Won: Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Rafael Azcona) - ¡Ay, Carmela!
* 2005 - Nominated: Best Director - El 7º día
* 2006 - Nominated: Best Documentary - Iberia
* 2008 - Nominated: Best Documentary - Fados
* 2022 - Won: Honorary Goya Award

### Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[edit]

* 1982 - Won: Special Prize of the Jury - Bodas de sangre
* 2000 - Won: Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema

### Montréal World Film Festival[edit]

* 1983 - Won: Most Popular Film of the Festival - Carmen
* 1986 - Won: Prix Special du Festival for his trilogy (Bodas de sangre, Carmen, El amor brujo), on the occasion of the presentation of El amor brujo
* 1995 - Won: Grand Prix Special des Amériques ("On the occasion of the centennial of cinema, for his exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art")
* 1997 - Won: Best Director - Pajarico
* 1997 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - Pajarico
* 1999 - Won: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Goya en Burdeos
* 1999 - Won: Best Artistic Contribution - Goya en Burdeos
* 1999 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - Goya en Burdeos
* 2002 - Won: Best Artistic Contribution - Salomé
* 2002 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - Salomé
* 2004 - Won: Best Director - El 7º día
* 2004 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - El 7º día

### San Sebastián International Film Festival[edit]

* 1958 - Won: Special Mention - Cuenca
* 1979 - Won: Special Prize of the Jury - Mamá cumple cien años
* 1996 - Nominated: Golden Seashell - Taxi
* 2001 - Nominated: Golden Seashell - Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón

### Venice Film Festival[edit]

* 1968 - Nominated: Golden Lion - Stress-es tres-tres
* 1984 - Nominated: Golden Lion - Los zancos
* 1993 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ¡Dispara!

### Other awards and honours[edit]

* 1977 - Won: Prix Léon Moussinac - Best Foreign Film at the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics for his film Cría cuervos...
* 1984 - Won: Best European Film at the 1984 Bodil Awards for his film Carmen
* 1985 - Won: Guild Film Award - Silver: Foreign Film at the Guild of German Art House Cinemas for his film Carmen
* 1991 - Won: ADIRCAE Award - Best Director for his film ¡Ay, Carmela!
* 1999 - Won: Jules Verne Award at the Nantes Spanish Film Festival for his film Pajarico
* 1999 - Won: SDFCS Award - Best Foreign Language Film at the San Diego Film Critics Society AwardsWon: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
* 2002 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival
* 2002 - Won: Special Career Award at the Fantasporto
* 2007 - Won: International Award at the Barcelona Film Awards
* 2008 - Won: International Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bombay International Film Festival
* 2011 - Won: Special Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Fotogramas de Plata
* 2013 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala
* 2015 - Won: Premio Feroz de Honor
* 2016 - Won': Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival of India.[24]

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

* 1970 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - La madriguera.
* 1977 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - Cría cuervos...
* 1978 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - Elisa, vida mía
* 1984 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - Carmen

Sant Jordi Awards

* 1967 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - La caza
* 1968 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - Peppermint Frappé
* 1972 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - El jardín de las delicias
* 1975 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - La prima Angélica
* 2000 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - Goya en Burdeos

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ From the Spanish popular saying: Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos (transl. Raise ravens and they will peck out your eyes.)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e ""Carmen" machte ihn berühmt: Regisseur Carlos Saura ist tot". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
2. ^ "Berlinale: 1966 Prize Winners". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 1966. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
3. ^ "Berlinale: 1968 Prize Winners". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 1968. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
4. ^ "Berlinale: 1981 Prize Winners". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 1981. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
5. ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". Oscars. 1980. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
6. ^ Calado, Silvia (May 2005). "Carlos Saura, director of 'Flamenco' Interview: "I struggle to open up new and daring pathways for flamenco"". Flamenco-World.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
7. ^ "Berlinale: 1989 Programme". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 1989. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
8. ^ Mishra, Bikas (16 May 2008). "Camera Is My Memory: Carlos Saura". DearCinema.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
9. ^ NewsDesk (22 February 2008). "Spanish director Carlos Saura to get Lifetime Achievement Award at Mumbai Fest". DearCinema.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
10. ^ "IFFK award for Spanish filmmaker". The Hindu. 2 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
11. ^ a b c d Pérez, Raquel (10 February 2023). "Muere Carlos Saura: maestro del cine, 7 hijos y sus grandes amores". Vanitatis - via El Confidencial.
12. ^ Slater, Lydia (12 February 2010). "Oona Chaplin: The Chaplin Kid". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
13. ^ "Carlos Saura y Eulalia Ramón se han casado". Hola! (in Spanish). Hola S.L. 6 April 2006. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
14. ^ a b "Carlos Saura y Eulàlia Ramón, una historia de amor que saltó del cine a la realidad". rtve.es. 10 February 2023.
15. ^ "La despedida de un genio". XL Semanal. 11 February 2023 - via La Voz de Galicia.
16. ^ Zurro, Javier (10 February 2023). "Muere Carlos Saura, director fundamental en la historia del cine español, a los 91 años". eldiario.es.
17. ^ "Carlos Saura - Photography on Círculo de Bellas Artes". www.talentoabordo.com. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
18. ^ Galán, Diego. "Buñuel y Saura, 1983. Dos aragoneses en el camino". Retrieved 10 February 2023 - via Instituto de Estudios Turolenses.
19. ^ Ojeda, Alberto (6 February 2022). "Carlos Saura: "Soy muy pesimista con la humanidad y optimista conmigo mismo"". El Cultural - via El Español.
20. ^ "Carlos Saura es nombrado a título póstumo Hijo Adoptivo de Collado Mediano, donde residía". Cadena COPE. 17 February 2023.
21. ^ Belinchón, Gregorio (10 February 2023). "Muere Carlos Saura a los 91 años, el último director clásico del cine español". El País. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
22. ^ Pulver, Andrew (10 February 2023). "Spanish film-maker Carlos Saura, director of ¡Ay Carmela!, dies aged 91". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
23. ^ "Muere Carlos Saura, el cineasta de la modernidad y de la memoria". El Mundo. 10 February 2023.
24. ^ "IFFI: 2022 Prize Winners". Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award. 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carlos Saura.

* Carlos Saura at IMDb
* Official Webpage in Spanish
* Carlos Saura. Film. Biography and works. Spain in culture: official Website of Culture in Spain. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
* Paul Julian Smith: Cría cuervos...: The Past Is Not Past. DearCinema.com, 13 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
* Linda M. Willem (2003). Carlos Saura: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers). University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-494-5.

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Films directed by Carlos Saura

* Cuenca (1958)
* The Delinquents (1959)
* Weeping for a Bandit (1963)
* The Hunt (1966)
* Peppermint Frappé (1967)
* Stress Is Three (1968)
* Honeycomb (1969)
* The Garden of Delights (1970)
* Ana and the Wolves (1972)
* Cousin Angelica (1973)
* Cría Cuervos (1975)
* Elisa, vida mía (1977)
* Blindfolded Eyes (1978)
* Mama Turns 100 (1979)
* Faster, Faster (1980)
* Blood Wedding (1981)
* Sweet Hours (1981)
* Antonieta (1982)
* Carmen (1983)
* Los Zancos (1984)
* El amor brujo (1986)
* El Dorado (1988)
* The Dark Night (1989)
* ¡Ay Carmela! (1990)
* The South (1990)
* Marathon (1992)
* Sevillanas (1992)
* Outrage (1993)
* Flamenco (1995)
* Taxi (1996)
* Little Bird (1997)
* Tango (1998)
* Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
* Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
* Salomé (2002)
* The 7th Day (2004)
* Iberia (2005)
* Fados (2007)
* I, Don Giovanni (2009)
* Flamenco, Flamenco (2010)
* Zonda, folclore argentino (2015)
* J: Beyond Flamenco (2016)
* Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander (2018)
* The King of All the World (2021)
* Las paredes hablan (2022)

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* e

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

* Ingmar Bergman (1988)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
* Federico Fellini (1989)
* Andrzej Wajda (1990)
* Alexandre Trauner (1991)
* Billy Wilder (1992)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1993)
* Robert Bresson (1994)
* Marcel Carné (1995)
* Alec Guinness (1996)
* Jeanne Moreau (1997)
* Ennio Morricone (1999)
* Richard Harris (2000)
* Monty Python (2001)
* Tonino Guerra (2002)
* Claude Chabrol (2003)
* Carlos Saura (2004)
* Sean Connery (2005)
* Roman Polanski (2006)
* Jean-Luc Godard (2007)
* Judi Dench (2008)
* Ken Loach (2009)
* Bruno Ganz (2010)
* Stephen Frears (2011)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (2012)
* Catherine Deneuve (2013)
* Agnès Varda (2014)
* Charlotte Rampling (2015)
* Jean-Claude Carrière (2016)
* Alexander Sokurov (2017)
* Carmen Maura (2018)
* Werner Herzog (2019)
* Márta Mészáros (2021)
* Margarethe von Trotta (2022)
* Vanessa Redgrave (2023)

Award of Merit (Special Achievement Award)|

* Richard Attenborough (1988)
* Jeremy Irons (1998)

Honorary Award|

* Manoel de Oliveira (2007)
* Michel Piccoli (2011)
* Michael Caine (2015)
* Andrzej Wajda (2016)
* Costa-Gavras (2018)

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Silver Bear for Best Director

1956–1975|

* Robert Aldrich (1956)
* Mario Monicelli (1957)
* Tadashi Imai (1958)
* Akira Kurosawa (1959)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
* Bernhard Wicki (1961)
* Francesco Rosi (1962)
* Nikos Koundouros (1963)
* Satyajit Ray (1964)
* Satyajit Ray (1965)
* Carlos Saura (1966)
* Živojin Pavlović (1967)
* Carlos Saura (1968)
* Jean-Pierre Blanc (1972)
* Sergei Solovyov (1975)

1976–2000|

* Mario Monicelli (1976)
* Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (1977)
* Georgi Djulgerov (1978)
* Astrid Henning-Jensen (1979)
* István Szabó (1980)
* Mario Monicelli (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Costas Ferris / Ettore Scola (1984)
* Robert Benton (1985)
* Georgiy Shengelaya (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Norman Jewison (1988)
* Dušan Hanák (1989)
* Michael Verhoeven (1990)
* Jonathan Demme / Ricky Tognazzi (1991)
* Jan Troell (1992)
* Andrew Birkin (1993)
* Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994)
* Richard Linklater (1995)
* Richard Loncraine / Yim Ho (1996)
* Eric Heumann (1997)
* Neil Jordan (1998)
* Stephen Frears (1999)
* Miloš Forman (2000)

2001–present|

* Lin Cheng-sheng (2001)
* Otar Iosseliani (2002)
* Patrice Chéreau (2003)
* Kim Ki-duk (2004)
* Marc Rothemund (2005)
* Mat Whitecross / Michael Winterbottom (2006)
* Joseph Cedar (2007)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)
* Asghar Farhadi (2009)
* Roman Polanski (2010)
* Ulrich Köhler (2011)
* Christian Petzold (2012)
* David Gordon Green (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Radu Jude / Małgorzata Szumowska (2015)
* Mia Hansen-Løve (2016)
* Aki Kaurismäki (2017)
* Wes Anderson (2018)
* Angela Schanelec (2019)
* Hong Sang-soo (2020)
* Dénes Nagy (2021)
* Claire Denis (2022)
* Philippe Garrel (2023)

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Feroz of Honor

Lifetime Achievement Award at Feroz Awards

2010s|

* 2014: José Sacristán
* 2015: Carlos Saura
* 2016: Rosa Maria Sardà
* 2017: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
* 2018: Verónica Forqué
* 2019: José Luis Cuerda

2020s|

* 2020: Julia Gutiérrez Caba / Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
* 2021: Victoria Abril
* 2022: Cecilia Bartolomé
* 2023: Pedro Almodóvar

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Goya Award for Best Director

1980s|

* Fernando Fernán Gómez (1986)
* José Luis Garci (1987)
* Gonzalo Suárez (1988)
* Fernando Trueba (1989)

1990s|

* Carlos Saura (1990)
* Vicente Aranda (1991)
* Fernando Trueba (1992)
* Luis García Berlanga (1993)
* Imanol Uribe (1994)
* Álex de la Iglesia (1995)
* Pilar Miró (1996)
* Ricardo Franco (1997)
* Fernando León de Aranoa (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)

2000s|

* José Luis Borau (2000)
* Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
* Fernando León de Aranoa (2002)
* Icíar Bollaín (2003)
* Alejandro Amenábar (2004)
* Isabel Coixet (2005)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2006)
* Jaime Rosales (2007)
* Javier Fesser (2008)
* Daniel Monzón (2009)

2010s|

* Agustí Villaronga (2010)
* Enrique Urbizu (2011)
* J. A. Bayona (2012)
* David Trueba (2013)
* Alberto Rodríguez (2014)
* Cesc Gay (2015)
* J. A. Bayona (2016)
* Isabel Coixet (2017)
* Rodrigo Sorogoyen (2018)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2019)

2020s|

* Salvador Calvo (2020)
* Fernando León de Aranoa (2021)
* Rodrigo Sorogoyen (2022)

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Honorary Goya Award

1980s|

* 1986: José F. Aguayo
* 1987: Rafaela Aparicio
* 1988: Imperio Argentina
* 1989: Victoriano López García

1990s|

* 1990: Enrique Alarcón
* 1991: Emiliano Piedra
* 1992: Manuel Mur Oti
* 1993: Tony Leblanc
* 1994: José María Forqué
* 1995: Federico Gutiérrez-Larraya
* 1996: Miguel Picazo
* 1997: Rafael Azcona
* 1998: Rafael Alonso
* 1999: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

2000s|

* 2000: José Luis Dibildos
* 2001: Juan Antonio Bardem
* 2002: Manuel Alexandre
* 2003: Héctor Alterio
* 2004: José Luis López Vázquez
* 2005: Pedro Masó
* 2006: Tedy Villalba
* 2007: Alfredo Landa
* 2008: Jesús Franco
* 2009: Antonio Mercero

2010s|

* 2010: Mario Camus
* 2011: Josefina Molina
* 2012: Concha Velasco
* 2013: Jaime de Armiñán
* 2014: Antonio Banderas
* 2015: Mariano Ozores
* 2016: Ana Belén
* 2017: Marisa Paredes
* 2018: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
* 2019: Pepa Flores

2020s|

* 2020: Ángela Molina
* 2021: José Sacristán
* 2022: Carlos Saura
* 2023: Juan Mariné

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IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award

1999–2020
IFFI Lifetime Achievement Award|

* Bernardo Bertolucci (30th)
* Liv Ullmann (34th)
* Dilip Kumar (38th)
* Lata Mangeshkar (38th)
* Bertrand Tavernier (42nd)
* Krzysztof Zanussi (43rd)
* Jiří Menzel (44th)
* Wong Kar-wai (45th)
* Nikita Mikhalkov (46th)
* Im Kwon-taek (47th)
* Atom Egoyan (48th)
* Dan Wolman (49th)
* Isabelle Huppert (50th)
* Vittorio Storaro (51st)

2021–present
IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award|

* Martin Scorsese (52nd)
* István Szabó (52nd)
* Carlos Saura (53rd)
* Michael Douglas (54th)

Authority control databases

International|

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Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* Museum of Modern Art
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* ULAN

People|

* Deutsche Biographie
* Trove

Other|

* SNAC
* IdRef

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