Name
Luis Buñuel
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1900-02-22
Deathday
1983-07-29 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España
Biography
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.
Known For
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A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile...
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Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with...
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Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between direc...
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A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls...
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Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry hi...
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After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car,...
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In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to di...
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After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the ...
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; ...
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Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her fathe...
- 2020 Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self (archive footage)
- 1929 Un Chien Andalou as Man in Prologue (uncredited)
- 1967 Belle de Jour as Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
- 1930 L'Âge d'or as (uncredited)
- 1984 The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2000 Speaking of Buñuel as Self (archive footage)
- 1929 Montparnasse
- 1971 The Castaway on the Street of Providence as Self
- 1984 Buñuel as Self
- 1965 There Are No Thieves in This Village
- 1926 Carmen as Contrebandier chez lillas pastia
- 1964 Weeping for a Bandit as El verdugo
- 2001 tvSSFBM EHKL as Himself (archive footage)
- 1964 Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps as Self
- 2012 Discovering Buñuel as Self/Archive Footage
- 1973 Fall of a Body as Un invité (uncredited)
- 1969 The Milky Way as (voice) (uncredited)
- 2018 Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2017 The Incredible Mr. Piccoli as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 1926 Mauprat as Monk / Guardsman
- 1974 The Phantom of Liberty as Condemned Man (uncredited)
- 2010 Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 Buñuel in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 A Mexican Buñuel as Self (archival)
- 2025 Memoria de Los Olvidados as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 Les paradoxes de Buñuel as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Constel·lació Portabella as (archive footage)
- 2022 Deneuve, la reine Catherine as Self (archive footage)
- 1953 The Proud and the Beautiful as Smuggler (uncredited)
- 1992 Paco, mi padre
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1954 Reflets de Cannes ( 1 episode ) as Self
