Pedro Almodovar

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September 24, 1949

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero

Writer

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Broken Embraces (2009)

The Cannibalistic Councillor (short) (as Harry 'Huracán' Caine) (2009)

Volver (2006)

Bad Education (2004)

Talk to Her (2002)

All About My Mother (1999)

Carne trémula (1997)

La flor de mi secreto (1995)

Kika (1993)

Tacones lejanos (1991)

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Law of Desire (1987)

Matador (1986)

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (TV short) (1985)

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (1984)

Entre tinieblas (1983)

Laberinto de pasiones (1982)

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)

Folle... folle... fólleme Tim! (1978)

Salomé (short) (1978)

Sexo va, sexo viene (short) (1977)

Muerte en la carretera (short) (1976)

Sea caritativo (short) (1976)

Tráiler de 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (short) (1976)

Blancor (short) (1975)

El sueño, o la estrella (short) (1975)

Homenaje (short) (1975)

La caída de Sódoma (short) (1975)

Dos putas, o historia de amor que termina en boda (short) (1974)

Film político (short) (1974)

Director

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Broken Embraces (2009)

The Cannibalistic Councillor (short) (as Mateo Blanco) (2009)

Volver (2006)

Bad Education (2004)

Talk to Her (2002)

All About My Mother (1999)

Carne trémula (as Pedro Almodovar) (1997)

La flor de mi secreto (1995)

Kika (as Pedro Almodovar) (1993)

Tacones lejanos (1991)

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Law of Desire (as Pedro Almodovar) (1987)

Matador (1986)

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (TV short) (1985)

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (as Pedro Almodovar) (1984)

Entre tinieblas (1983)

Laberinto de pasiones (1982)

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)

Folle... folle... fólleme Tim! (1978)

Salomé (short) (1978)

Sexo va, sexo viene (short) (1977)

Muerte en la carretera (short) (1976)

Sea caritativo (short) (1976)

Tráiler de 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (short) (1976)

Blancor (short) (1975)

El sueño, o la estrella (short) (1975)

Homenaje (short) (1975)

La caída de Sódoma (short) (1975)

Dos putas, o historia de amor que termina en boda (short) (1974)

Film político (short) (1974)

Producer

El último verano de la Boyita (2009) (executive producer)

La mujer sin cabeza (2008) (producer)

The Secret Life of Words (2005) (executive producer)

Bad Education (producer) (2004)

La niña santa (2004) (executive producer)

My Life Without Me (2003) (executive producer)

El espinazo del diablo (2001) (executive producer)

Shampoo Horns (1998) (producer)

Mi nombre es sombra (1996) (associate producer)

Acción mutante (1993) (producer)

Pestañas postizas (1982) (producer)

Actor

Bad Education (uncredited) (2004)

Law of Desire (uncredited) (1987)

Matador (uncredited) (1986)

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (as Almodovar) (1984)

Entre tinieblas (1983)

Laberinto de pasiones (uncredited) (1982)

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (uncredited) (1980)

Arrebato (1980) (voice) (uncredited)

Tiempos de constitución (1979)

¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como éste? (1978) (uncredited)

Appearances

Los Goya 26 edición (TV special) (2012)

Informe semanal (TV series documentary) (3 episodes, 2002-2012)

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special) (2012)

“Versión española” (TV series) (8 episodes, 1999-2011)

“Días de cine” (TV series) (9 episodes, 1991-2011)

“Miradas 2 (TV series documentary) (2 episodes, 2009-2011)

“Iñaki” (TV series) (1 episode, 2011)

“Alaska y Mario” (TV series) (1 episode, 2011)

“Cinema 3” (TV series) (12 episodes, 1984-2011)

“Le grand journal de Canal+” (TV series) (2 episodes, 2009-2011)

Cannes Film Festival 2011 (TV special) (2011)

Una historia de Zinemaldia (TV series documentary) (2011)

Arrebatados. Recordando a Iván Zulueta (documentary) (2010)

25 fotogramas (TV series) (2 episodes, 2010)

Gilles Jacob, l'arpenteur de la croisette (TV documentary) (2010)

Cannes Film Festival 2010 (TV special) (2010)

La noche de los Oscar (TV special) (2010)

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (2010)

XXIV Premios Anuales de la Academia (TV special) (2010)

30 minuts (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2010)

Che tempo che fa (TV series) (1 episode, 2009)

L'hebdo cinéma (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2009)

Cannes Film Festival 2009 (TV special) (2009)

The Charlie Rose Show (2 episodes, 2006-2009)

"The Culture Show" (1 episode, 2009)

"Buenafuente" (3 episodes, 2005-2009)

"Continuarà..." (3 episodes, 2002-2009)

"Ànima" (1 episode, 2009)

"Hora Q" (1 episode, 2009)

Buscando a Penélope (2009) (TV)

Almodóvar en corto (2009) (TV)

Resumen - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008) (TV)

Premio Donostia a Antonio Banderas (2008) (TV)

"Caiga quien caiga" (7 episodes, 2001-2008)

"La 2 noticias" (1 episode, 2008)

Coração Vagabundo (2008)

"Channel nº 4" (1 episode, 2007)

"Corazón de..." (8 episodes, 2005-2007)

Madrid: la sombra de un sueño (2007) (TV)

"Noche Hache" (2 episodes, 2006-2007)

La noche de los Oscar (2007) (TV) (voice)

"La nuit des Césars" (1 episode, 2007)

Penélope, camino a los Oscar (2007) (TV)

Pedro entrevista a las actrices (2006)

Cannes, la alfombra roja (2006)

The 2006 European Film Awards (2006) (TV)

Ceremonia de apertura - 54º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2006) (TV)

"B 360º" (1 episode, 2006)

"Corazón, corazón" (1 episode, 2006)

El Almodóvar que nadie conoce (2006) (TV)

"Magacine" (2 episodes, 1999-2005)

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005)

"Dos rombos" (1 episode, 2005)

2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards (2005)

"Estravagario" (1 episode, 2005)

"La nit al dia" (1 episode, 2005)

The 2004 European Film Awards (2004) (TV)

Ceremonia de apertura del festival de cine de San Sebastián (2004) (TV)

Je t'aime... moi non plus: Artistes et critiques (2004)

"Lo + plus" (8 episodes, 1995-2004)

The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2004) (TV)

Épreuves d'artistes (2004)

Claude Berri, le dernier nabab (2003) (TV)

The 75th Annual The Academy Awards (2003) (TV)

The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2003) (TV)

"La noche con Fuentes y Cía" (1 episode, 2002)

"El informal" (1 episode, 2002)

XVI premios Goya (2002) (TV)

All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2001) (TV)

MTV Europe Music Awards 2001 (2001) (TV)

"Ahora" (1 episode, 2001)

Oscar 2000 (2000) (TV)

The 72nd Annual The Academy Awards (2000) (TV)

XIV premios Goya (2000) (TV)

"La gran ilusión" (1 episode, 2000)

The European Film Awards (1999) (TV)

46º edición de los premios Ondas (1999) (TV)

"Mundo VIP" (2 episodes, 1997-1999)

"Crónicas marcianas" (1 episode, 1999)

XIII premios Goya (1999) (TV)

Memoria de 'Carne trémula' (1997)

Dolor y vida: Un acercamiento a 'La flor de mi secreto' (1995) (TV)

Homenaje a Lola Flores (1994) (TV)

Fotogramas de Plata 93 (1994) (TV

Camp Christmas (1993) (TV)

"¡Hola Raffaella!" (1 episode, 1993)

"Gente de primera" (1 episode, 1993)

"De tú a tú" (2 episodes, 1991-1993)

"Queremos saber" (1 episode, 1992)

"Punto y aparte" (1 episode, 1992)

"El programa de Hermida" (1 episode, 1991)

Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (as Pedro Almodovar)

"Com a casa" (1 episode, 1990)

IV premios Goya (1990) (TV)

"Viva el espectáculo" (1 episode, 1990)

"La parada" (1 episode, 1990)

"La tarde" (1 episode, 1989)

The European Film Awards (1988) (TV)

"Juego de niños" (1 episode, 1988)

"Mag magazine" (1 episode, 1988)

"Viaje con nosotros" (1 episode, 1988)

"Fin de siglo" (2 episodes, 1986-1987)

"Ahí te quiero ver" (1 episode, 1987)

"De jueves a jueves" (1 episode, 1986)

"Enric, parada i fonda" (1 episode, 1986)

"Roba neta, roba bruta" (1 episode, 1986)

"De película" (1 episode, 1986)

"La edad de oro" (5 episodes, 1983-1985)

"Fila 7" (1 episode, 1984)

"Caja de ritmos" (1 episode, 1983)

The Academy Awards

2003 Won Oscar for: Hable con ella (2002)

2003 Nominated Oscar Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina

2006 Nominated Award of the Argentinean Academy Best Foreign Film for: Volver (2006) Spain

Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

2010 Nominated Silver Condor Best Foreign Film, Spanish Language (Mejor Película Iberoamericana) for: Broken Embraces (2009) Spain

2007 Won Silver Condor Best Foreign Film, Spanish Language (Mejor Película Iberoamericana)
for: Volver (2006) Spain

2005 Nominated Silver Condor Best Foreign Film, Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera en Habla Hispana) for: La mala educación (2004) Spain

2003 Won Silver Condor Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) for: Hable con ella (2002) Spain

2000 Nominated Silver Condor Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Ariel Awards, Mexico

2000 Nominated Silver Ariel Best Latin-American Film (Mejor Película Iberoamericana) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Spain

BAFTA Awards

2012 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Film Not in the English Language for: The Skin I Live In (2011). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2010 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film Not in the English Language for: Broken Embraces (2009). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2007 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: Volver (2006). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2005 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: La mala educación (2004). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2003 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: Hable con ella (2002). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2003 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Screenplay - Original for: Hable con ella (2002)

2000 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

2000 Won David Lean Award for Direction for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

2000 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Screenplay - Original for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1999 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: Carne trémula (1997). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

1990 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Bangkok International Film Festival

2003 Won Golden Kinnaree Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

2003 Won Golden Kinnaree Award Best Film for: Hable con ella (2002)

Berlin International Film Festival

1990 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: ¡Átame! (1990)

1987 Won Teddy Best Feature Film for: La ley del deseo (1987)

Bodil Awards

2007 Nominated Bodil Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film) for: Volver (2006) Spain

2003 Won Bodil Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke amerikanske film) for: Hable con ella (2002) Spain

2000 Won Bodil Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke amerikanske film) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Bogota Film Festival

1988 Won Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Director for: La ley del deseo (1987)

1988 Won Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Screenplay for: La ley del deseo (1987)

1988 Nominated Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Film for: La ley del deseo (1987)

1988 Nominated Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Film for: Matador (1986)

Cannes Film Festival

2011 Nominated Palme d'Or for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2009 Nominated Golden Palm for: Los abrazos rotos (2009)

2006 Won Best Screenplay for: Volver (2006)

2006 Nominated Golden Palm for: Volver (2006)

1999 Won Best Director for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1999 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1999 Nominated Golden Palm for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Cartagena Film Festival

1992 Won Golden India Catalina Best Film (Mejor Película) for: Tacones lejanos (1991)

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

2000 Won CFCA Award Best Foreign Language Film for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Chlotrudis Awards

2011 Nominated Palme d'Or for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2007 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Director for: Volver (2006)

2003 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

2001 Won Chloe Award

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

2000 Won Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

2012 Nominated CEC Award Best Screenplay, Adapted (Mejor Guión Adaptado) for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2010 Nominated CEC Award Best Screenplay, Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Broken Embraces (2009)

2007 Won CEC Award Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Volver (2006)

2007 Won CEC Award Best Screenplay, Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Volver (2006)

2003 Nominated CEC Award Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Hable con ella (2002)

2000 Nominated CEC Award Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Czech Lions

2003 Won Czech Lion Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) for: Hable con ella (2002) Spain

2001 Nominated Czech Lion Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

César Awards, France

2007 Nominated César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for: Volver (2006)

2005 Nominated César Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne) for: La mala educación (2004) Spain

2003 Won César Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne) for: Hable con ella (2002) Spain

2000 Won César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Spain/France

1999 Honorary César

1993 Won César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for: Tacones lejanos (1991)

1991 Nominated César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for: ¡Átame! (1990)

David di Donatello Awards

2007 Nominated David Best European Film (Miglior Film dell'Unione Europea) for: Volver (2006)

2003 Nominated David Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) for: Hable con ella (2002)

2000 Won David Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Spain/France

1989 Won David Best Director - Foreign Film (Migliore Regista Straniero) for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Directors Guild of Great Britain

2005 Nominated DGGB Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Foreign Language Film for: La mala educación (2004)

European Film Awards

2009 Nominated Audience Award for: Los abrazos rotos (2009)

European Film Award Best Director for: Los abrazos rotos (2009)

2006 Won Audience Award Best Film for: Volver (2006)

2006 Won European Film Award Best Director for: Volver (2006)

2006 Nominated European Film Award Best Screenwriter for: Volver (2006)

2004 Nominated Audience Award Best Director for: La mala educación (2004)

2004 Nominated European Film Award Best Director for: La mala educación (2004)

2004 Nominated Best Film for: La mala educación (2004). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar (producer)

2004 Nominated Best Screenwriter for: La mala educación (2004)

2002 Won Audience Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

2002 Won European Film Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

2002 Won Best Screenwriter for: Hable con ella (2002)

1999 Won Audience Award Best Director for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1988 Won European Film Award Best Young Film for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

2012 Nominated Chainsaw Award Best Screenplay for: The Skin I Live In (2011). Shared with: Agustín Almodóvar

Fantasporto

1987 Won International Fantasy Film Award Best Director for: Matador (1986)

1987 Nominated International Fantasy Film Award Best Film for: Matador (1986)

1986 Won International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award for: Matador (1986)

Fotogramas de Plata

2007 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: Volver (2006). Tied with: El laberinto del fauno (2006)

1991 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: ¡Átame! (1990). Tied with: Innisfree (1990) and Boom boom (1990)

1988 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: La ley del deseo (1987). Tied with: El Lute: Camina o revienta (1987)

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics

2007 Won Critics Award Best Foreign Film for: Volver (2006)

2003 Won Critics Award Best Foreign Film for: Hable con ella (2002)

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival

2006 Won Jury Award Best Film for: Volver (2006)

1999 Won People's Choice Award for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

German Film Awards

2000 Won Best Foreign Film for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Spain/France

Golden Eagle Awards, Russia

2006 Won Golden Eagle Best Foreign Film for: Volver (2006) (Paradise Group)

Golden Globes, Italy

2006 Won Golden Globe Best European Film (Miglior Film Europeo) for: Volver (2006)

2002 Nominated Golden Globe Best European Film (Miglior Film Europeo) for: Talk to Her (2002)

Goya Awards

2012 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2012 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Adapted (Mejor Guión Adaptado) for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2010 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Broken Embraces (2009)

2007 Won Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Volver (2006)

2007 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Volver (2006)

2005 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: La mala educación (2004)

2003 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Hable con ella (2002)

2003 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Hable con ella (2002)

2000 Won Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

2000 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1996 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: La flor de mi secreto (1995)

1991 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: ¡Átame! (1990)

1991 Nominated Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: ¡Átame! (1990)

1989 Won Goya Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original) for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

1989 Nominated Goya Best Director (Mejor Director) for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Gramado Film Festival

1992 Won Golden Kikito Best Director (Melhor Direção) for: Tacones lejanos (1991)

1992 Nominated Golden Kikito Best Ibero-American Film (Melhor Filme) for: Tacones lejanos (1991)

Guild of German Art House Cinemas

2007 Won Guild Film Award - Gold Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) for: Volver (2006)


Guldbagge Awards

2007 Nominated Guldbagge Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film) for: Volver (2006)

Hollywood Film Festival

2006 Won Hollywood World Award for: Volver (2006)

Iberoamerican Short Film Competition

2005 Won "La Navaja de Buñuel" Award for: La mala educación (2004)

2000 Won "La Navaja de Buñuel" Award for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Independent Spirit Awards

2005 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film for: La mala educación (2004) Spain

2000 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Spain

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

2007 Won Silver Ribbon Best European Director (Regista del Miglior Film Europeo) for: Volver (2006)

2005 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) for: La mala educación (2004)

2002 Won European Silver Ribbon

1998 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) for: Carne trémula (1997)

1989 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

1996 Nominated Crystal Globe for: La flor de mi secreto (1995)

London Critics Circle Film Awards


2007 Nominated ALFS Award Director of the Year for: Volver (2006)

2003 Nominated ALFS Award Director of the Year for: Hable con ella (2002)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

2002 Won LAFCA Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

1999 Won LAFCA Award Best Foreign Film for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

1987 Won New Generation Award

Lumiere Awards, France

2000 Won Lumiere Award Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

1989 Won Special Award for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)
Also for Matador (1986) for: his originality in such films

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

2002 2nd place NYFCC Award Best Director for: Talk to Her (2002)

Ondas Awards

1997 Won Cinemania Award


Palm Springs International Film Festival

2000 International Filmmaker Award

Polish Film Awards

2007 Won Eagle Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski) for: Volver (2006) Spain

2005 Nominated Eagle Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski) for: La mala educación (2004) Spain

Popcorn Film Festival

1998 Won Audience Award for: Carne trémula (1997)

Premios ACE

2007 Won Premio ACE Cinema - Best Director for: Volver (2006)

2005 Nominated Premio ACE Cinema - Best Director for: La mala educación (2004)

2003 Won Premio ACE Cinema - Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

Prince of Asturias Awards

2006 Won Prince of Asturias Award Arts

Robert Festival

2007 Nominated Robert Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) for: Volver (2006)

2003 Nominated Robert Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) for: Hable con ella (2002)

2000 Won Robert Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999). Tied with La vita è bella (1997)

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

1987 Won Audience Award Best Feature for: La ley del deseo (1987)

San Sebastián International Film Festival

2006 Won FIPRESCI Film of the Year for: Volver (2006)

1999 Won FIPRESCI Film of the Year for: Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Sant Jordi Awards

2012 Won Audience Award Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: The Skin I Live In (2011)

2000 Career Award

1994 Won Audience Award Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: Kika (1993). Tied with La ardilla roja (1993)

1991 Won Audience Award Best Spanish Film (Mejor Película Española) for: ¡Átame! (1990)

1989 Won Audience Award Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

1988 Won Audience Award Best Spanish Film (Mejor Película Española) for: La ley del deseo (1987)

1985 Won Sant Jordi Best Film (Mejor Película Española) for: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (1984)

Satellite Awards

2006 Nominated Satellite Award Best Director for: Volver (2006)

2006 Nominated Satellite Award Best Screenplay, Original for: Volver (2006)

2003 Won Golden Satellite Award Best Screenplay, Original for: Hable con ella (2002)

2003 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Director for: Hable con ella (2002)

1998 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language for: Carne trémula (1997) Spain

Sofia International Film Festival

2003 Won Audience Award Best Film for: Hable con ella (2002)

São Paulo International Film Festival

2009 Won Audience Award Best Foreign-Language Film for: Los abrazos rotos (2009). Tied with Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

2009 International Feature Film for: Los abrazos rotos (2009)

1998 2nd place Audience Award Best Feature for: Carne trémula (1997)

Toronto International Film Festival

1988 Won People's Choice Award for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

Valdivia International Film Festival

2006 Won Audience Award for: Volver (2006)

2006 Special Jury Award for: Volver (2006)

Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema

1984 Won FIPRESCI Prize for: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (1984)

1984 Won Silver Palm for: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (1984)

Venice Film Festival

1988 Won Golden Osella Best Screenplay for: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

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My school and the cinema were only a few buildings apart on the same street. The bad education I received at school was rectified when I went to the cinema. My religion became the cinema. Of course one could create one's own belief system, and anything that helps or supports you in life can be seen as covering the function of religion. In that sense you could consider cinema my religion, because it is one of my major stimuli that I have for living. Cinema has that aspect of devotion to saints and idolatry as well. In that sense it is entirely religious.

I do remember having extreme physical fear of the priests. One of the things we had to do was kiss the priest's hand, which I found revolting. The notorious abuser, who eventually had to leave, had this harem of about 20 boys.

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The characters in my films are assassins, rapists and so on, but I don't treat them as criminals, I talk about their humanity.

My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for film-making than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I have always found it easy to let my imagination go. You do not just need imagination for film-making, you also need a lot of passion.

When I discovered film-making as a way of telling stories, I felt that I had found something that was in my nature. I am glad that I had this ambition to be a novelist because it has helped me in film-making.

In the last decade you can count the number of Hollywood dramas that have revolved around women. The studios have forgotten that women are fascinating.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

I don't get involved with my actors. I don't get so involved with the films . . . If I lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I made 16 films.

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Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain. Moving to Madrid at the age of 17 he worked for Spain’s national telephone company but used his time to pursue his own artistic passions. He started dabbling in Super 8 short films in the mid 1970s before graduating to 16 mm.

He is the most important film-making talent to emerge from Spain since Luis Buñuel.

Almodóvar’s cinema often breaks taboos. His early films were cult, camp and kitsch melodramas.

He was at the forefront of La movida madrilène (the ‘Madrid Scene’), the cultural rebirth that followed the death of Franco and his films have an affinity for the dreams and desires of the post-Franco generation – colorful, caustic screwball melodramas fueled by hedonism, passion and the joy of sexual and political liberation.

His film “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988) charts 48 hours in the lives of madcap women in Madrid. It became Spain’s most commercially successful film and announced Almodóvar internationally, winning 50 prizes including an Academy Award nomination.

Live Flesh (1997) was his first non-original screenplay and was set during the Franco years. It is the first Almodóvar film to directly address and criticize the fascist dictatorship in Spain.

His Mother Francisca Caballero and brother Agustín Almodóvar often appear in cameo roles in his movies.

He was the lead singer of the infamous music duo "Almodóvar & McNamara", a legendary bizarre project that personified the image of "la movida madrileña" during the early 1980s in Madrid. He appears in that role in his own film Laberinto de pasiones (1982) (a.k.a. "Labyrinth of Passion") wearing women's clothes and lots of black makeup.

Celebrity chef Rachael Ray is a big fan of his and named a chicken dish after him.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) is one of his favorite films.

Favorite American actress is Meryl Streep.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

All About My Mother (1999)

Volver (2006)

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