Born
21 February 1900 (126)
Place of Birth
Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España
Also known as
Luis Buñuel Portolés
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...
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.
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025
Constel·lació Portabella
2024
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015
Discovering Buñuel
2012
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
tvSSFBM EHKL
2001
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Eating Sea Urchins
2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
A Mexican Buñuel
1997
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
1984
Buñuel
1984
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Fall of a Body
1973
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
1971
Tristana
1970
The Milky Way
1969
Belle de Jour
1967
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965
Simon of the Desert
1965
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
1964
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
The Exterminating Angel
1962
Viridiana
1962
The Young One
1960
Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959
Nazarín
1959
Death in the Garden
1956
That Is the Dawn
1956
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
The River and Death
1954
Robinson Crusoe
1954