Luis Buñuel
Director
71
Movies
2
TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
Belle de jour
Director, Guionista
Un Perro Andaluz
Guionista, Editor, Productor, Director
Ese oscuro objeto del deseo
Director, Guionista
Los olvidados
Director, Guionista
Viridiana
Director, Guionista, Editor
El discreto encanto de la burguesía
Director, Guionista, Sound Effects
Johnny consiguió su arma
Escritor
El ángel exterminador
Director, Guionista, Dialogue
La joven
Director, Guionista
Las Hurdes
Director, Productor, Editor, Guionista
Nazarín
Director, Guionista
Tristana
Director, Productor, Guionista
Robinson Crusoe
Director, Guionista
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Director, Escritor, Sound Effects
La Edad de Oro
Director, Editor, Compositor, Guionista
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Director, Escritor, Editor
El Bruto
Director, Escritor
Él
Director, Adaptation, Guionista
La Chute de la maison Usher
Adaptation, Escritor, Assistant Director
La Vía Láctea
Director, Escritor, Compositor
Simón del desierto
Director, Guionista, Dialogue, Historia
El río y la muerte
Director, Escritor
Belle Toujours
Thanks
Ensayo de un crimen
Director, Escritor
Abismos de pasión
Director, Historia, Adaptation
Los ambiciosos
Director, Escritor
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
Director, Escritor
Carmen
Assistant Director
El gran calavera
Director
La Mort en ce jardin
Director, Guionista
As Actor/Actress
Cinépanorama
Self
Belle de jour
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Un Perro Andaluz
Man in Prologue (uncredited)
Le Fantôme de la liberté
A Condemned Man (uncredited)
La Edad de Oro
(uncredited)
La Vía Láctea
(voice) (uncredited)
A propósito de Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
Les Orgueilleux
Smuggler (uncredited)
En este pueblo no hay ladrones
Cura
Carmen
Contrebandier chez lillas pastia
Llanto por un bandido
El verdugo
Buñuel en Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Self (archive footage)
Buñuel
Self
L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Un Buñuel mexican
Self (archival)
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Self
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self (archive footage)
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
Self
Mauprat
Monk / Guardsman
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
El náufrago de la Calle Providencia
Self
Constel·lació Portabella
(archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Self (archive footage)
La Chute d'un corps
Un invité (uncredited)
Montparnasse
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Buñuel
Self/Archive Footage