José Luis Garci

José Luis Garci, 2013

José Luis García Muñoz (born January 20, 1944 in Madrid ) is a Spanish screenwriter , film producer and director who has been awarded several international film awards and whose films have been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film most often .

biography

Garci, who has written around 50 templates for films, began as a screenwriter for the short film Pedigree (1966) in the mid-1960s . From the mid-1970s he also worked as a film producer and director and appeared in some of his films as an actor . He worked with Horacio Valcárcel (1932-2018) on numerous projects . Together with the director Antonio Mercero (1936-2018) he wrote the screenplay for La cabina (1972), a bizarre medium- length film that was shown on Spanish television and was the only Spanish television film to win an Emmy until 2018 . The script for the television play La Gioconda está triste (1977), the literary model of which was created by Garci himself and which was also shown on Bavarian television in 1979 , is a product of the longstanding collaboration with Mercero.

In 1976 he was awarded the CEC Medal of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (Circle of Screenwriters in Spain) for the first time, which he received as the prize for the best short film ( Mi Marilyn , 1975). In 1982 he won the Creu de Sant Jordi Prize for the best short film for Alfonso Sánchez (1980) and another CEC medal for the best screenplay for El Crack - Deadly Vengeance (1981).

His film Volver A Empezar (1982) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1983 Academy Awards . He also received the Premio ACE 1984 as best director for Volver a empezar and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the World Film Festival in Montréal . At the 1985 Academy Awards , the film Sésion continua he produced was again nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film.

For Asignatura aprobada (1987) he received not only the Goya for best director in 1988 , but also the award of the Spanish directors' association ADIRCAE for best director. In addition, the film was nominated again in 1988 for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film.

He won another CEC medal for best director in the film Canción de cuna (1994). Canción de cuna also received the prize for best director, the prize of the ecumenical jury and the great jury special prize at the 1994 World Film Festival. The film also won the Creu de Sant Jordi Audience Award. After all, the film was nominated at the Goya Awards in 1995 for the categories of best director and Garci with Horacio Valcárcel also for the best adapted screenplay.

He was then nominated at the 1997 World Film Festival in Montréal for the Grand Prix des Amériques for the film La herida luminosa (1997).

Together with Horacio Valcárcel, he received the CEC Award for the best adapted screenplay ("Mejor Guión Adaptado") for El Abuelo (1998) in 1999 and the Spanish ATV Award in 2001 for the best screenplay. At the same time he was nominated for the directing award ("Mejor Dirección") at the ATV Awards 2001 for this film. El Abuelo was nominated at the Goya Awards 1999 in the categories of best film, best director and Garci together with Valcárcel for the best adapted screenplay. Finally, El Abuelo was also nominated for the Oscar in the category of best foreign language film at the 1999 Academy Awards.

In 2002 he was nominated by the Association of Film Critics of Argentina for the Silver Condor for the best foreign film ("Mejor Película Extranjera") for Una historia de entonces ( You're the one , 2000). For this he was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival . In addition, Una historia de entonces was nominated for the award of the best film at the Cartagena Film Festival, while he received the award for best director there. In 2001 he also won the CEC Award for the best director of the Spanish Screenwriters Circle, which nominated him with Horacio Valcárcel for the award for the best original screenplay. In addition, Una historia de entonces was nominated for the European Film Prize for Best Director in 2001 and won a special mention at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2001. He was also nominated for Best Director at the 2001 Goya Awards and together with Horacio Valcárcel for the best original script.

In 2003 he received nominations for the CEC Award for best director for Historia de un beso (2002) and, together with Horacio Valcárcel, for the best original screenplay. In 2004 he received the Golden Antenna ( Antena de Oro ) for his services to Spanish cinema. Film Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004) was nominated by the circle of screenwriters in Spain in 2005 for the prizes for best director, best editing and best original screenplay (together with Horacio Valcárcel). The Spanish scriptwriters' circle nominated him with Horacio Valcárcel for the award for the best adapted screenplay for Ninette (2005). For Ninette , he and Valcárcel were also nominated for the best adapted screenplay at the Goya Awards 2006 .

In 2008 he and Horacio Valcárcel won the CEC Award for the best adapted screenplay for Luz de domingo (2007). For the film Sangre de mayo (2008) he was nominated on the one hand for the 2009 CEC Award as best director, on the other hand with Horacio Valcárcel again for the award for the best adapted screenplay.

Web links

• José Luis Garci in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literally "Mona Lisa is sad". German premiere on 30 May 1979 at the BR under the title The Lost Smile ( full information from the database television dramas from 1952 to 1995 of the DRA , call in August 2018).