Luis Buñuel
Directing
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
Directing38
movieEating Sea Urchins
2000
Director
movieThe Phantom of Liberty
1974
Director
movieTristana
1970
Director
movieThe Milky Way
1969
Director
movieBelle de Jour
1967
Director
movieSimon of the Desert
1965
Director
movieDiary of a Chambermaid
1964
Director
movieThe Exterminating Angel
1962
Director
movieViridiana
1962
Director
movieThe Young One
1960
Director
movieFever Mounts at El Pao
1959
Director
movieNazarín
1959
Director
movieDeath in the Garden
1956
Director
movieThat Is the Dawn
1956
Director
movieThe River and Death
1954
Director
movieRobinson Crusoe
1954
Director
movieWuthering Heights
1954
Director
movieÉl
1953
Director
movieThe Brute
1953
Director
movieA Woman Without Love
1952
Director
movieMexican Bus Ride
1952
Director
movieDaughter of Deceit
1951
Director
movieSusana
1951
Director
movieThe Great Madcap
1949
Director
movieGran Casino
1947
Director
movieGuard! Alert!
1937
Co-Director
movieWho Loves Me?
1936
Co-Director
movieLand Without Bread
1933
Director
movieL'Âge d'or
1930
Director
movieUn Chien Andalou
1929
Director
movieThe Fall of the House of Usher
1928
Assistant Director
movieSiren of the Tropics
1927
Assistant Director
movieCarmen
1926
Assistant Director
Writing39
movieShort Cuts: “The Diary of a Chambermaid” by Luis Buñuel
2026
Original Film Writer
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
2017
Original Story
movieLa novia de medianoche
1997
Screenplay
movieThat Obscure Object of Desire
1977
Screenplay
movieThe Monk
1972
Screenplay
movieTristana
1970
Screenplay
movieThe Milky Way
1969
Writer
movieBelle de Jour
1967
Screenplay
movieSimon of the Desert
1965
Dialogue, Screenplay, Story
movieThe Exterminating Angel
1962
Dialogue, Screenplay
movieViridiana
1962
Screenplay
movieThe Young One
1960
Screenplay
movieNazarín
1959
Screenplay
movieDeath in the Garden
1956
Screenplay
movieRobinson Crusoe
1954
Screenplay
movieWuthering Heights
1954
Adaptation, Story
movieÉl
1953
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieThe Brute
1953
Writer
movieA Woman Without Love
1952
Screenplay
movieMexican Bus Ride
1952
Adaptation
movieSusana
1951
Writer
movieThe Young and the Damned
1950
Screenplay
movieSpain 1936
1937
Screenplay
movieWho Loves Me?
1936
Screenplay
movieDon Quintín, el amargao
1935
Screenplay
movieLand Without Bread
1933
Screenplay
movieL'Âge d'or
1930
Screenplay
movieUn Chien Andalou
1929
Screenplay
movieThe Fall of the House of Usher
1928
Adaptation, Writer
Acting34
movieMemoria de Los Olvidados
2025
Self (archive footage)
movieConstel·lació Portabella
2024
(archive footage)
movieDeneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieLe Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Self (archive footage)
movieJeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieThe Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieTras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015
Self (archive footage)
movieDiscovering Buñuel
2012
Self/Archive Footage
movieCatherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
Self (archive footage)
tvSSFBM EHKL
2001
Himself (archive footage)
movieSpeaking of Buñuel
2000
Self (archive footage)
movieBuñuel in Hollywood
2000
Self (archive footage)
movieLes paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
Self (archive footage)
movieA Mexican Buñuel
1997
Self (archival)
movieBuñuel
1984
Self
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Phantom of Liberty
1974
A Condemned Man (uncredited)
movieFall of a Body
1973
Un invité (uncredited)
movieThe Milky Way
1969
(voice) (uncredited)
movieBelle de Jour
1967
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
movieWeeping for a Bandit
1964
El verdugo
movieThe Proud and the Beautiful
1953
Smuggler (uncredited)
movieL'Âge d'or
1930
(uncredited)
movieUn Chien Andalou
1929
Man in Prologue (uncredited)
movieMauprat
1926
Monk / Guardsman
movieCarmen
1926
Contrebandier chez lillas pastia
Production10
movieTristana
1970
Producer
Espagne 1937
1938
Production Manager
movieGuard! Alert!
1937
Production Director
movieSpain 1936
1937
Producer
movieWho Loves Me?
1936
Production Director
movieThe Daughter of Juan Simón
1935
Production Director
movieDon Quintín, el amargao
1935
Producer
movieLand Without Bread
1933
Producer
movieUn Chien Andalou
1929
Producer
movieMauprat
1926
Production Assistant
Editing7
Sound4
movieThe Phantom of Liberty
1974
Sound Effects
movieThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
Sound Effects
movieThe Milky Way
1969
Original Music Composer
movieL'Âge d'or
1930
Original Music Composer
Crew1
movieBelle Toujours
2006
Thanks