Carlos Saura Atarés 4 January 1932 10 February 2023 was a Spanish film director photographer and writer With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar he is considered to be among Spains great filmmakers He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century and his films won many international awards Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts He gained international prominence when his first featurelength film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960 Although he started filming as a neorealist Saura 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 The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 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 Cousin Angelica 1973 and Cría Cuervos 1975 in Cannes and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100 In the 1980s Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy Blood Wedding Carmen 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 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 concentrated on works uniting music dance and images Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Saura licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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