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Over his forty years of career, Carlos Saura has garnered a number of awards, amongst which the 1976 Special Jury Prize at Cannes for Raise Ravens (Cría Guervos), the Golden Bear at the 1981 Berlin Festival with Fast, Fast (Deprisa, Deprisa), and two Silver Bear awards for best direction for The Hunt (La Caza) in 1966 and Peppermint Frappé in 1967. Other than these, his film Ay, Carmela! was awarded two Goya prizes (the equivalent in Spain of the French Césars) in 1991 for best direction and best adaptation together with co-writer Rafael Azcona. Saura, also received a mention at the San Sebastián Festival in 1996 for Taxi, and obtained the prize for best direction in the Montreal World Film Festival in 1997 for Pajarico.
Over and above his specific obsessions - death, solitude, family breakdown, the effect on reality of dreams and memories -, Saura's extensive filmography bears evidence to his great versatility and wide range of interests...in which music and dancing hold a prominent position. |
Filmography | |
1955 | Antonio Saura (short documentary feature) |
1956 | El pequeño río Manzanares (short film) |
1957 | La tarde del domingo (short film) |
1958 | El pisito (performer) Cuenca (director of photography, screenwriter, producer) |
1960 | Los Golfos (director) |
1963 | Muere una mujer (screenwriter) |
1964 | Llanto por un bandido (director) |
1966 | La caza (The Hunt) (director, screenwriter) |
1967 | Peppermint frappé (director) |
1968 | Stress es tres, tres (director, screenwriter) |
1969 | La madriguera (director) |
1970 | El jardín de las delicias (The Garden of Delights), (director, screenwriter) |
1972 | Ana y los lobos (director, screenwriter) |
1973 | La prima Angélica (director) |
1975 | Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens) (director, screenwriter) |
1977 | Elisa, vida mía (Elisa, My Life) (director, screenwriter) |
1978 | Los ojos vendados (director, screenwriter) |
1979 | Mama cumple cien años (director, screenwriter) |
1980 | Deprisa, deprisa (Fast, Fast) (director) |
1981 | Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) (director) Dulces horas (Tender Hours) (director) |
1982 | Antonieta (director, screenwriter) |
1983 | Carmen (director, screenwriter, choreography) |
1984 | Los zancos (The Stilts) (director, screenwriter) |
1985 | El amor brujo (A Love Bewitched) (director, screenwriter, choreography) |
1988 | El Dorado (director, screenwriter) |
1989 | La noche oscura (The Dark Night) (director, screenwriter) |
1990 | ¡Ay, Carmela! (director, screenwriter) |
1992 | El sur (The South) (director, screenwriter) Sevillanas (director, screenwriter) |
1993 | ¡Dispara! (director, screenwriter) Marathon (director) |
1995 | Flamenco (director) |
1996 | Taxi (director) |
1997 | Pajarico (director, screenwriter) Tango (director) |
1998 | ¡Esa luz! (director) |