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Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buñuel and
Saura considers his film on surrealist master Luis Buñuel to be his best cinematic work. In an interview to an online film magazine, he says 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.
In 2013, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala.
*1983 - Won: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film - ''Carmen''.
*1998 - Won: Special Award (Film Direction with a Special Visual Sensitivity).
*2009 - Won: Cinematographer-Director Duo Award (shared with
*1991 - Won: Goya Award for Best Director - ''¡Ay, Carmela!''.
*1991 - Won:
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, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards.
Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He quickly gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival
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in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura quickly 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 ''La Caza
''The Hunt'' (in Spanish ''La Caza'') is a 1966 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a psychological thriller about three veterans of the Spanish Civil War who meet to go rabbit hunting. It was Saura's first international success, wi ...
'' won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival
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. 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 '' La Prima Angélica'' (1973) and '' Cría Cuervos'' (1975) in Cannes; and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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nomination in 1979 for '' Mama Cumple 100 Años''.
In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco
Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura a ...
trilogy – '' Bodas de Sangre'', ''Carmen
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'' 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
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the ...
'' (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 has concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
Early life
Saura was born in Huesca, Aragón, Spain 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
Antonio Saura Atarés (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is ...
, 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 has 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 priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
– 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” who imposed in the child the very antithesis of the liberal education he had received in the republican zone.
Career
In 1957–1958, Saura created his first film, ''Cuenca''. In 1962 his film ''Los Golfos'' was recognized for its strong sociological impact, to aid Spanish youth by tackling the issue of juvenile delinquency in Madrid's poorest districts. Four years later (1966), he was honored at the16th Berlin International Film Festival
The 16th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June – 5 July 1966. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film ''Cul-de-sac'' directed by Roman Polanski.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury f ...
, where he received the Silver Bear for Best Director for his film ''La caza
''The Hunt'' (in Spanish ''La Caza'') is a 1966 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a psychological thriller about three veterans of the Spanish Civil War who meet to go rabbit hunting. It was Saura's first international success, wi ...
''. In 1967, his film ''Peppermint Frappé
''Peppermint Frappé'' is a 1967 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin and José Luis López Vázquez. The story centers on a man who becomes obsessed with the wife of an old friend, believing her to ...
'' also received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. He won the Golden Bear in 1981 at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival for his film ''Deprisa, Deprisa
''Deprisa, deprisa'' ( en, Hurry, Hurry!) is a 1981 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. It tells the story of a gang of juvenile delinquents and is considered one of the classics of the quinqui film genre.'
In the English-speaking world, ...
''.
The films '' La prima Angélica'' (''Cousin Angélica'') of 1973 and '' Cría cuervos'' (''Raising Ravens'' rom the Spanish phrase: ''Cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos'' (Raise ravens and they will peck out your eyes) of 1975 received the special prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival
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. His film '' Mama cumple 100 años'' (''Mom is celebrating her 100 years'') was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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at the 1980 Academy Awards.
Saura later become known for movies featuring flamenco and other traditional dances. His ''Flamenco
Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura a ...
Trilogy'' of the 1980s includes '' Bodas de Sangre'' (Blood Wedding), ''Carmen
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'', and '' El amor brujo'' featuring the work of Spanish flamenco dancer Cristina Hoyos
Cristina Hoyos Panadero (born 13 June 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer and actress, born in Seville, Spain. After a successful worldwide career, she opened her own dance company in 1988 that premiered at the Rex Theatre in Paris ...
. He later made the movies ''Flamenco
Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura a ...
'' (1995), '' Tango'' (1998), and '' Fados'' (2007).
His 1989 film '' La noche oscura'' was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Saura considers his film on surrealist master Luis Buñuel to be his best cinematic work. In an interview to an online film magazine, he says 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.
In 2013, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala.
Personal life
Carlos Saura was married three times. He first married Adela Medrano inBarcelona
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in 1957. They had two sons, Carlos (b. 1958) and Antonio (b. 1960). On 27 December 1982 he married Mercedes Pérez. They had three sons, Manuel (b. 1980), Adrián (b. 1984) and Diego (b. 1987).
Between those two marriages, Saura had at least one known son, Shane (b. 1974), with the actress Geraldine Chaplin. He is also the father of a daughter named Anna (b. December 1994) from his third marriage to actress Eulalia Ramón.
Filmography
As director
* 1955 : ''Flamenco
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'' (short film)
* 1956 : '' El Pequeño río Manzanares'' (short film)
* 1957 : '' La Tarde del domingo'' (short film)
* 1958 : '' Cuenca''
* 1959 : '' Los golfos''
* 1963 : '' Llanto por un bandido''
* 1965 : '' The Hunt''
* 1967 : ''Peppermint Frappé
''Peppermint Frappé'' is a 1967 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin and José Luis López Vázquez. The story centers on a man who becomes obsessed with the wife of an old friend, believing her to ...
''
* 1968 : '' Stress-es tres-tres''
* 1969 : '' La madriguera''
* 1970 : '' El jardín de las delicias''
* 1972 : '' Ana and the Wolves''
* 1973 : '' La prima Angélica''
* 1975 : '' Cría cuervos''
* 1977 : '' Elisa, vida mía''
* 1978 : '' Los ojos vendados''
* 1979 : ''Mamá cumple cien años
''Mamá cumple cien años'' is a 1979 Spanish comedy film written and directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a comedy sequel of the drama Ana and the Wolves directed by Saura in 1973. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Langua ...
''
* 1981 : ''Deprisa, Deprisa
''Deprisa, deprisa'' ( en, Hurry, Hurry!) is a 1981 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. It tells the story of a gang of juvenile delinquents and is considered one of the classics of the quinqui film genre.'
In the English-speaking world, ...
''
* 1981 : '' Bodas de Sangre''
* 1982 : '' Sweet Hours''
* 1982 : ''Antonieta
''Antonieta'' is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla. The film, a Mexican-Spanish French co production, was based on a novel by Andrés Henestrosa. The plot centers on the life of Antonieta Ri ...
''
* 1983 : ''Carmen
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''
* 1984 : '' Los Zancos''
* 1986 : '' El amor brujo''
* 1988 : ''El Dorado
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''
* 1989 : '' La Noche oscura''
* 1990 : '' ¡Ay, Carmela!''
* 1992 : '' El Sur''
* 1992 : ''Marathon
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''
* 1992 : '' Sevillanas''
* 1993 : ''¡Dispara!
''¡Dispara! '' (also known as ''Outrage!'') is a 1993 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura, starring Francesca Neri and Antonio Banderas. The story is a revenge tragedy.
Plot
Marcos, a young reporter, goes to a circus to write a Sunday ...
''
* 1995 : ''Flamenco
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''
* 1997 : ''Taxi
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''
* 1997 : '' Pajarico''
* 1998 : '' Tango''
* 1999 : '' Goya en Burdeos''
* 2001 : '' Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón''
* 2002 : '' Salomé''
* 2004 : ''El séptimo día
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''
* 2005 : ''Iberia
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''
* 2007 : '' Fados''
* 2008 : '' Sinfonía de Aragón'' (short film)
* 2009 : ''I, Don Giovanni
''I, Don Giovanni'' (Italian: ''Io, Don Giovanni'') is a 2009 Spanish-Italian-Austrian drama film directed by Carlos Saura.
The film narrates the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, an Italian Freemason who wouldn't give up his libertinism, despite being ...
''
* 2010 : '' Flamenco, Flamenco''
* 2015 : '' Zonda, folclore argentino''
* 2016 : '' J: Beyond Flamenco''
* 2018 : '' Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander''
* 2021 : ''The King of All the World
''The King of All the World'' ( es, El rey de todo el mundo, links=no) is a 2021 musical drama film directed and written by Carlos Saura. A Mexico-Spain co-production, the cast is led by Ana de la Reguera, Manuel García Rulfo, Damián Alcázar, ...
(El Rey de todo el mundo)''
* 2021 : '' Goya 3D'' (short film)
* 2022 : '' 33 días''
* 2022 : '' Untitled serie sobre Federico Garcia Lorca''
Selected awards and nominations
Academy Awards
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*1980 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Mamá cumple 100 años''.
*1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Carmen''.
*1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Tango''.
Berlin Film Festival
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*1964 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''Llanto por un bandido''.
*1966 - Won: Silver Bear for Best Director at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival
The 16th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June – 5 July 1966. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film ''Cul-de-sac'' directed by Roman Polanski.
Jury
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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''.
Vittorio Storaro
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).
Cannes Film Festival
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*1960 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Los golfos''.
*1973 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Ana y los lobos''.
*1974 - Won: Jury Prize at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival
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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
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*2004 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award.
*2008 - Nominated: Best Documentary Award - ''Fados''.
Golden Globe Awards
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*1978 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Cría cuervos...''
*1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Carmen''.
*1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Tango''.
Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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For the first two editions of the Goya Awards, only one award for screenplays was pre ...
(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
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*1982 - Won: Special Prize of the Jury - ''Bodas de sangre''.
*2000 - Won: Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema.
Montréal World Film Festival
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*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
*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
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*1968 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''Stress-es tres-tres''.
*1984 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''Los zancos''.
*1993 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''¡Dispara!''.
Other awards and honours
*1977 - Won: Prix Léon Moussinac - Best Foreign Film at theFrench Syndicate of Cinema Critics
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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
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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 Awards
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for his film ''Tango''.
*1999 - Won: 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: Special Prizes for An Outstanding Contribution To The World Cinema at the Moscow International Film Festival
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*2022 - Won: Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival of India
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;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''.
References
External links
*Official Webpage in Spanish
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. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saura, Carlos 1932 births Living people People from Huesca Spanish film directors Film directors from Aragon Spanish screenwriters Spanish male writers Male screenwriters Spanish photographers European Film Awards winners (people) Filmmakers who won the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award Best Director Goya Award winners Silver Bear for Best Director recipients Directors of Golden Bear winners Tango film directors Kristián Award winners