Vicente Aranda

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Vicente Aranda (born November 9, 1926 in Barcelona , † May 26, 2015 in Madrid ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter . Due to his distinctive personal style, he is one of the most famous contemporary Spanish filmmakers.

Life

Vicente Aranda Ezguerra was born in Barcelona in 1926 as the youngest son of a family. The Spanish Civil War , in which the family sided with the Republicans, determined his youth. Until he emigrated to Venezuela for political and economic reasons in 1952 , Aranda earned his living doing odd jobs. There he worked as a freight technician for a US shipping company and later took a responsible position in an electronics company. After seven years in exile, he returned to Spain in 1959. With the aim of becoming a director, he applied to the Madrid film school. However, since he did not have a suitable school leaving certificate, he was rejected. He moved to Barcelona, ​​where he was fully self-taught in 1964 to make his first film.

Filmography

  • 1964: Brillante porvenir
  • 1965: Fata Morgana ,
  • 1969: Las crueles
  • 1972: La novia ensangrentada
  • 1974: Clara es el precio
  • 1976: Cambio de sexo
  • 1980: La muchacha de las bragas de oro
  • 1982: Asesinato en el Comité Central
  • 1984: El Crimen del Capitán Sánchez
  • 1986: Tiempo de silencio
  • 1987: El Lute: camina o revienta
  • 1988: El Lute II: mañana seré libre
  • 1989: Si te dicen que caí
  • 1991: Amantes
  • 1993: Intruso , El amante bilingüe
  • 1994: In the wake of passion (La Pasión turca)
  • 1995: Lumière et Compagnie
  • 1996: Libertarias
  • 1998: The other's gaze (La mirada del otro)
  • 1999: Celos
  • 2001: Juana la Loca
  • 2003: Carmen
  • 2004: Técnicas para un golpe de estado , contribution to ¡Hay motivo!
  • 2006: Tirante el Blanco

Awards

Vicente Aranda has won eleven Spanish and international film awards. He was nominated for 18 other awards.

  • Aranda received the first internationally renowned awards in 1988. For the first part of his biographical drama about Eleuterio Sánchez Rodríguez , El Lute: camina o revienta , he was honored with the prize of the same name from the Fotogramas de Plata for the best Spanish film. The Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas nominated Aranda for a Goya in the category best director (Mejor Director) for this film . He received further awards for this film from the Cognac Festival du Film Policier . There he won both the LTC Coup de Coeur and the special prize of the jury. For the second part of the film El Lute II: mañana seré libre , he was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in the same year and subsequently for a Goya for the best adapted screenplay (Mejor Guión Adaptado) .
  • In 1990 Aranda was able to achieve two further nominations for a Goya. His drama Si te dicen que caí was nominated for the award in the categories of best director and best adapted screenplay.
  • In 1991 his film Amantes was nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. At the MystFest - Festival Internazionale del Giallo e del Mistero di Cattolica , the film won the award for the best film in the same year.
  • Aranda celebrated his most successful film year to date with four prizes in 1992. For Amantes he received his first Goya and a Premio ADIRCAE in the category best director . As best film, the work was awarded another prize from the Fotogramas de Plata and a Sant Jordi .
  • In 1994 he was nominated for two other Goyas , El Amante bilingüe in the category of best adapted screenplay and the comedy Intruso in the category of best director. Intruso was also nominated for the prize for best film in 1994 at the Brazilian Gramado Film Festival .
  • These awards were repeated in 1995 with In the Wake of Passion. Aranda was nominated for the Goyas in the categories of best adapted screenplay and best film and the award for the best film of the Gramado Film Festival . At the Moscow International Film Festival the film was proposed for a Golden St. George .
  • For his drama Libertarias , which is about the Spanish civil war , Aranda received the special jury award at the 1996 Tokyo International Film Festival .
  • The film adaptation of the novel “The View of the Other” (La Mirada del otro) was nominated for a Golden Bear at the 1998 Berlinale.
  • In 2001 Aranda received the Cinemania Award of the Premios Ondas and was nominated for the Golden Shell for Juana la Loca at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián .
  • For Juana la Loca , Aranda was nominated again in 2002 for the Goya Best Director. In 2004 he received the honorary award of the Spanish directors' association ADIRCAE.
  • The documentary ¡Hay motivo! , to which Aranda contributed, was nominated in 2005 for the Goya in the category of best documentary (Mejor Película Documental) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spanish director Vicente Aranda dies aged 88

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Commons : Vicente Aranda  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Aranda, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aranda Ezquerra, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2015
Place of death Madrid , Spain