Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura is known for Cria! (1976), Ay, Carmela! (1990), Carmen (1983).
Biography
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 Spain's 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 feature-length 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.
Questions about Carlos Saura
How many Carlos Saura films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 58 films with Carlos Saura, from 1958 to 2023.
What is the best rated Carlos Saura film?
The best rated Carlos Saura film in the catalogue is Cria! (1976), rated 7.5.
What was the first Carlos Saura film?
The first Carlos Saura film in the catalogue is The Hunt, from 1966.
Who has Carlos Saura worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Carlos Saura shares the most credits with Pablo G. del Amo (7 films), Elías Querejeta (5 films) and Teo Escamilla (4 films).
People data: TMDb.
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2023) · Alcalá City Awards (2016) · honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2014) · Annual award ACFK (2012) · European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) · honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II (2004) · honorary doctorate of University of Burgundy (2003) · Premio Aragón (2000) · honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II (1995) · honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza (1993) · Medalla de Oro (1992) · Goya Award for Best Director (1991) · BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language (1985) · Golden Bear (1981) · Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (1976) · Jury Prize (1974) · Silver Bear for Best Director (1966) · Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Nominations
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2021) · European Film Award for Best Documentary (2008) · European Film Award for Best Film (1990)
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- film director · screenwriter · photographer · writer · film screenwriter · director · filmmaker
- Notable works
- La caza · Cría Cuervos · Honeycomb · The Garden of Delights · Ana and the Wolves · Mamá cumple cien años · La prima Angélica · Elisa, vida mía · Blood Wedding · El Amor brujo · Carmen · Los zancos · ¡Ay, Carmela! · Sevillanas · Flamenco · Tango · Goya in Bordeaux · Bunuel and King Solomon's Table · I, Don Giovanni
- Spouse
- Adela Medrano · Mercedes Pérez · Eulàlia Ramon
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
71 films — 58 in the catalogue
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Ese niño de la fotografía. Carlos Saura
2026
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Miradas del cine español
2024
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7.0 The Walls Can Talk
2023 · Self
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6.0 Donde acaba la memoria
2022 · Self
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7.5 Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022 · Self
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Goyasaurio
2021 · Self
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5.9 Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018 · Self - Filmmaker
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6.0 Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
2018 · Self (archive footage)
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6.0 Saura(s)
2017 · Self
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Carlos Saura - Fotograf
2017 · Self
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Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire
2016 · Carlos Saura
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3.0 Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015 · Self
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5.2 Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015 · Self
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1.0 Aragón rodado
2014 · Self
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10.0 Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
2013 · Inszenierung
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6.0 24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
2012 · Self
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7.0 Rafael Azcona
2010 · Self
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4.0 En la ciudad perdida
2009 · Self
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7.9 Critic
2008 · Self
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6.0 Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
2007 · Self
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7.0 Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005 · Self
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6.0 Retrato de Carlos Saura
2004 · Self
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6.0 Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · Self
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9.0 Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998 · Self
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Buñuel
1989 · Self
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6.7 The Little Apartment
1959 · (uncredited)
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3.0 El proceso
1955
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6.2 The King of All the World
2021
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5.4 Argentina
2015
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6.6 The 7th Day
2004
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6.4 Salomé
2002
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6.0 Goya in Bordeaux
1999
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6.6 Tango
1998
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5.6 Outrage
1993
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5.5 Marathon
1993
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4.3 The King of Ads
1991
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6.9 The Stilts
1984
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6.4 Faster, Faster
1981
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5.9 Blindfolded Eyes
1978
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7.5 Cria!
1976
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5.4 Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
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5.2 Taxi
1996
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5.4 Sevilles
1992
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6.3 El Dorado
1988
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5.3 Antonieta
1982
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6.3 Mama Turns 100
1979
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6.5 Elisa, My Life
1977
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6.5 Cousin Angelica
1974
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6.9 Anna and the Wolves
1973
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6.1 The Garden of Delights
1970
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6.4 Honeycomb
1969
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6.0 Stress Is Three
1968
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6.6 Peppermint Frappé
1967
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6.5 Muere una mujer
1964
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7.0 Fados
2007
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6.2 Little Bird
1997
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5.3 The Dark Night of the Soul
1989
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5.5 Sweet Hours
1982
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5.8 Weeping for a Bandit
1964
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7.3 Cuenca
1958
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6.7 Ay, Carmela!
1990
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6.7 Carmen
1983
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6.6 Blood Wedding
1981
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5.9 Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
2021
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7.0 Flamenco Flamenco
2010
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6.3 Flamenco
1995
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6.9 El amor brujo
1986
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7.0 The Hunt
1966
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6.4 The Delinquents
1960
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4.8 I, Don Giovanni
2009
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5.9 Iberia
2005
People data: TMDb.
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