Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with

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and

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, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He quickly gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at

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in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura quickly 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 ''

La Caza ''The Hunt'' (in Spanish ''La Caza'') is a 1966 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a psychological thriller about three veterans of the Spanish Civil War who meet to go rabbit hunting. It was Saura's first international success, wi ...

'' won the

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at the

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. 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 ''

La Prima Angélica ''Cousin Angelica'' ( es, La prima Angélica ) is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring José Luis López Vázquez as a middle-aged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his pas ...

'' (1973) and ''

Cría Cuervos ''Cría Cuervos'' (''Raise ravens'') is a 1976 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is an allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with loss. Highly acclaimed, it received the Special Jury Prize Award at the 1976 Can ...

'' (1975) in Cannes; and an

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nomination in 1979 for '' Mama Cumple 100 Años''. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his

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trilogy – ''

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'', ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' and ''

El Amor Brujo ''El amor brujo'' (, "The sorcerer love") is a ballet by Manuel de Falla to a libretto by María de la O Lejárraga García, although for years it was attributed to her husband Gregorio Martínez Sierra. It exists in three versions as well as a p ...

,'' 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 ''

'' (1983) and ''

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'' (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 has concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.

Early life

Saura was born in Huesca, Aragón, Spain on 4 January 1932. His father, Antonio Saura Pacheco, who came from Murcia, was an attorney and civil servant. His mother, Fermina Atarés Torrente, was a concert pianist. The second of their four children, Carlos had an older brother,

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, and two younger sisters, María del Pilar and María de los Ángeles. Antonio became a well-known abstract expressionist painter. From their parents, the four siblings received a liberal understanding education. Because his father worked for the Ministry of the Interior, the Saura family moved to Barcelona, Valencia, and, in 1953, to Madrid. Saura's childhood was marked by the Spanish Civil War, during which the

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fought against the

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. Saura has vivid recollection of his childhood during the war. He later evoked some of them in his films – the games he played, and the songs he sang, as well as darker memories of bombings and hunger, blood and death. He was taught to read by a

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– a relative whom his parents sheltered from anticlerical extremists. At the war's end, Saura was separated from his parents and sent back to Huesca to live with his maternal grandmother and aunts. He described these relatives as “right wings and very religious” who imposed in the child the very antithesis of the liberal education he had received in the republican zone.

Career

In 1957–1958, Saura created his first film, ''Cuenca''. In 1962 his film ''Los Golfos'' was recognized for its strong sociological impact, to aid Spanish youth by tackling the issue of juvenile delinquency in Madrid's poorest districts. Four years later (1966), he was honored at the

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, where he received the

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for his film ''

La caza ''The Hunt'' (in Spanish ''La Caza'') is a 1966 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a psychological thriller about three veterans of the Spanish Civil War who meet to go rabbit hunting. It was Saura's first international success, wi ...

''. In 1967, his film ''

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'' also received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the

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. He won the

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in 1981 at the

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for his film ''

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''. The films ''

La prima Angélica ''Cousin Angelica'' ( es, La prima Angélica ) is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring José Luis López Vázquez as a middle-aged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his pas ...

'' (''Cousin Angélica'') of 1973 and ''

Cría cuervos ''Cría Cuervos'' (''Raise ravens'') is a 1976 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is an allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with loss. Highly acclaimed, it received the Special Jury Prize Award at the 1976 Can ...

'' (''Raising Ravens'' rom the Spanish phrase: ''Cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos'' (Raise ravens and they will peck out your eyes) of 1975 received the special prize of the jury at the

. His film '' Mama cumple 100 años'' (''Mom is celebrating her 100 years'') was nominated for the

at the 1980 Academy Awards. Saura later become known for movies featuring flamenco and other traditional dances. His ''

Trilogy'' of the 1980s includes ''

'' (Blood Wedding), ''

'', and ''

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'' featuring the work of Spanish flamenco dancer

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. He later made the movies ''

'' (1995), ''

'' (1998), and '' Fados'' (2007). His 1989 film '' La noche oscura'' was entered into the

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Saura considers his film on

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master

to be his best cinematic work. In an interview to an online film magazine, he says about ''Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón'' (Buñuel and the table of King Solomon -2001): “That’s the greatest film I’ve ever made. I like the film but nobody else seems to like it. I’m sure Buñuel would have loved this film. But perhaps only he would have loved it. Everything you see in the film is actually based on conversations I had with him.” In 1990, he received the

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for the best director and best script for ''¡Ay, Carmela!''. He was chosen as director for the official film of the 1992 Olympic Games of Barcelona, ''Marathon'' (1993). In 2008, Carlos Saura was honoured with a Global Life Time Achievement Award at the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival, organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image. In 2013, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th

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Personal life

Carlos Saura was married three times. He first married Adela Medrano in

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in 1957. They had two sons, Carlos (b. 1958) and Antonio (b. 1960). On 27 December 1982 he married Mercedes Pérez. They had three sons, Manuel (b. 1980), Adrián (b. 1984) and Diego (b. 1987). Between those two marriages, Saura had at least one known son, Shane (b. 1974), with the actress

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. He is also the father of a daughter named Anna (b. December 1994) from his third marriage to actress Eulalia Ramón.

Filmography

As director

* 1955 : ''

'' (short film) * 1956 : '' El Pequeño río Manzanares'' (short film) * 1957 : '' La Tarde del domingo'' (short film) * 1958 : '' Cuenca'' * 1959 : '' Los golfos'' * 1963 : '' Llanto por un bandido'' * 1965 : '' The Hunt'' * 1967 : ''

'' * 1968 : '' Stress-es tres-tres'' * 1969 : '' La madriguera'' * 1970 : ''

El jardín de las delicias ''El jardín de las delicias'', also known as ''The Garden of Delights'' in English language cinema, is a 1970 Spanish drama film co-written and directed by Carlos Saura. The film was censored by contemporary Spanish censorship because of its Fr ...

'' * 1972 : ''

Ana and the Wolves ''Ana and the Wolves'' ( es, Ana y los lobos) is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring Geraldine Chaplin as a foreign governess who comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family. The fil ...

'' * 1973 : ''

'' * 1975 : ''

'' * 1977 : ''

Elisa, vida mía ''Elisa, vida mía'' is a 1977 Spanish drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura. The film stars Saura's long-term companion and frequent collaborator, Geraldine Chaplin. She stars alongside Fernando Rey who won the Best Actor award at th ...

'' * 1978 : '' Los ojos vendados'' * 1979 : ''

Mamá cumple cien años ''Mamá cumple cien años'' is a 1979 Spanish comedy film written and directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a comedy sequel of the drama Ana and the Wolves directed by Saura in 1973. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Langua ...

'' * 1981 : ''

'' * 1982 : '' Sweet Hours'' * 1982 : ''

Antonieta ''Antonieta'' is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla. The film, a Mexican-Spanish French co production, was based on a novel by Andrés Henestrosa. The plot centers on the life of Antonieta Riv ...

'' * 1983 : ''

'' * 1984 : '' Los Zancos'' * 1986 : ''

'' * 1988 : ''

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'' * 1989 : '' La Noche oscura'' * 1990 : '' ¡Ay, Carmela!'' * 1992 : ''

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'' * 1992 : ''

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'' * 1992 : ''

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'' * 1993 : ''

¡Dispara! ''¡Dispara! '' (also known as ''Outrage!'') is a 1993 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura, starring Francesca Neri and Antonio Banderas. The story is a revenge tragedy. Plot Marcos, a young reporter, goes to a circus to write a Sunday ...

'' * 1995 : ''

'' * 1997 : ''

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'' * 1997 : '' Pajarico'' * 1998 : ''

'' * 1999 : ''

Goya en Burdeos ''Goya en Burdeos'' (English: ''Goya in Bordeaux'') is a 1999 Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya, the influential 19th-century Spanish painter. Awards * 5 Goya Awards, includin ...

'' * 2001 : '' Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón'' * 2002 : '' Salomé'' * 2004 : '' El séptimo día'' * 2005 : ''

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'' * 2007 : '' Fados'' * 2008 : '' Sinfonía de Aragón'' (short film) * 2009 : ''

I, Don Giovanni ''I, Don Giovanni'' (Italian: ''Io, Don Giovanni'') is a 2009 Spanish-Italian-Austrian Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Carlos Saura. The film narrates the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, an Italian Freemason who wouldn't give up his ...

'' * 2010 : '' Flamenco, Flamenco'' * 2015 : '' Zonda, folclore argentino'' * 2016 : '' J: Beyond Flamenco'' * 2018 : '' Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander'' * 2021 : ''

The King of All the World ''The King of All the World'' ( es, El rey de todo el mundo, links=no) is a 2021 musical drama film directed and written by Carlos Saura. A Mexico-Spain co-production, the cast is led by Ana de la Reguera, Manuel García Rulfo, Damián Alcázar, ...

(El Rey de todo el mundo)'' * 2021 : '' Goya 3D'' (short film) * 2022 : '' 33 días'' * 2022 : '' Untitled serie sobre Federico Garcia Lorca''

Selected awards and nominations

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*1980 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Mamá cumple 100 años''. *1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Carmen''. *1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Tango''.

BAFTA Award The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

*1983 - Won:

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- ''Carmen''.

Berlin Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

*1964 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''Llanto por un bandido''. *1966 - Won:

at the

for his film ''La caza''. *1966 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''La caza''. *1968 - Won:

at the

for his film ''Peppermint Frappé''. *1968 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''Peppermint Frappé''. *1969 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''La madriguera''. *1981 - Won:

at the

for his film ''Deprisa, deprisa''. *1989 - Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear - ''La noche oscura''.

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*1998 - Won: Special Award (Film Direction with a Special Visual Sensitivity). *2009 - Won: Cinematographer-Director Duo Award (shared with

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*1960 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Los golfos''. *1973 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Ana y los lobos''. *1974 - Won: Jury Prize at the

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for his film ''La prima Angélica''. *1974 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''La prima Angélica''. *1976 - Won: Grand Prix of the Jury at the

1976 Cannes Film Festival The 29th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 28 May 1976. The Palme d'Or went to ''Taxi Driver'' by Martin Scorsese. In 1976, "L'Air du temps", a new section which was non-competitive and focused on contemporary subjects, was introduced. This ...

for his film ''Cría cuervos...'' *1976 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Cría cuervos...''. *1977 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Elisa, vida mía''. *1978 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Los ojos vendados''. *1983 - Won: Technical Grand Prize at the

1983 Cannes Film Festival The 36th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 19 May 1983. The Palme d'Or went to the '' Narayama Bushiko'' by Shōhei Imamura. In 1983, the new building for the main events of the festival, the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, was inaug ...

for his film ''Carmen''. *1983 - Won: Award for Best Artistic Contribution at the

for his film ''Carmen''. *1983 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''Carmen''. *1988 - Nominated: Golden Palm - ''El Dorado''.

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*2004 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award. *2008 - Nominated: Best Documentary Award - ''Fados''.

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*1978 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Cría cuervos...'' *1984 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Carmen''. *1999 - Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film - ''Tango''.

Goya Awards The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sc ...

*1991 - Won:

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- ''¡Ay, Carmela!''. *1991 - Won:

Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Spanish ''Premio Goya al mejor guión adaptado'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. For the first two editions of the Goya Awards, only one award for screenplays was pre ...

(shared with

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) - ''¡Ay, Carmela!''. *2005 - Nominated: Best Director - ''El 7º día''. *2006 - Nominated: Best Documentary - ''Iberia''. *2008 - Nominated: Best Documentary - ''Fados''. *2022 - Won:

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...

*1982 - Won: Special Prize of the Jury - ''Bodas de sangre''. *2000 - Won: Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema.

Montréal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Internat ...

*1983 - Won: Most Popular Film of the Festival - ''Carmen''. *1986 - Won: Prix Special du Festival for his trilogy (''Bodas de sangre'', ''Carmen'', ''El amor brujo''), on the occasion of the presentation of ''El amor brujo''. *1995 - Won: Grand Prix Special des Amériques ("On the occasion of the centennial of cinema, for his exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art"). *1997 - Won: Best Director - ''Pajarico''. *1997 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - ''Pajarico''. *1999 - Won: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - ''Goya en Burdeos''. *1999 - Won: Best Artistic Contribution - ''Goya en Burdeos''. *1999 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - ''Goya en Burdeos''. *2002 - Won: Best Artistic Contribution - ''Salomé''. *2002 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - ''Salomé''. *2004 - Won: Best Director - ''El 7º día''. *2004 - Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques - ''El 7º día''.

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in th ...

*1958 - Won: Special Mention - ''Cuenca''. *1979 - Won: Special Prize of the Jury - ''Mamá cumple cien años''. *1996 - Nominated: Golden Seashell - ''Taxi''. *2001 - Nominated: Golden Seashell - ''Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón''.

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*1968 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''Stress-es tres-tres''. *1984 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''Los zancos''. *1993 - Nominated: Golden Lion - ''¡Dispara!''.

Other awards and honours

*1977 - Won: Prix Léon Moussinac - Best Foreign Film at the

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for his film ''Cría cuervos...'' *1984 - Won: Best European Film at the 1984

Bodil Awards The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association. The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe. The awards are given ...

for his film ''Carmen''. *1985 - Won: Guild Film Award - Silver: Foreign Film at the

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for his film ''Carmen''. *1991 - Won: ADIRCAE Award - Best Director for his film ''¡Ay, Carmela!''. *1999 - Won: Jules Verne Award at the Nantes Spanish Film Festival for his film ''Pajarico''. *1999 - Won: SDFCS Award - Best Foreign Language Film at the

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for his film ''Tango''. *1999 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award at the

Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) includes feature films, documentaries, and short films from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora. The six-day festival was established in 1997. The festival was founded by Marlene Dermer (a ...

. *2002 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award at the

Istanbul International Film Festival The Istanbul Film Festival ( tr, İstanbul Film Festivali) is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Tu ...

. *2002 - Won: Special Career Award at the

Fantasporto Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to Fantasy film, fantasy/Science fiction film, science fiction/Horror film, horror-oriented commercial fe ...

. *2007 - Won: International Award at the Barcelona Film Awards. *2008 - Won: International Lifetime Achievement Award at the

Bombay International Film Festival Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...

. *2011 - Won: Special Award for Lifetime Achievement at the

Fotogramas de Plata Fotogramas de Plata are a series of Spanish annual film, theatre and television awards awarded by ''Fotogramas'' film magazine since 1951. On 5 February 1951, ''Fotogramas'' magazine awarded their first Placa de San Juan Bosco award to actor Jes� ...

. *2013 - Won: Lifetime Achievement Award at the

. *2015 - Won: Premio Feroz de Honor. *2016 - Won: Special Prizes for An Outstanding Contribution To The World Cinema at the

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...

. *2022 - Won: Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the

International Film Festival of India The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually, currently in the state of Goa, on the western coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common pla ...

. ;Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain *1970 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - ''La madriguera''. *1977 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - ''Cría cuervos...'' *1978 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - ''Elisa, vida mía''. *1984 - Won: CEC Award; Best Director - ''Carmen''. ;

Sant Jordi Awards The Sant Jordi Awards ( ca, Premis Sant Jordi, links=no; es, Premios Sant Jordi, links=no) are film prizes awarded annually by the Catalan branch of the Spanish public radio network Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Ràdio 4 Ràdio 4 is a Spani ...

*1967 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - ''La caza''. *1968 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - ''Peppermint Frappé''. *1972 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - ''El jardín de las delicias''. *1975 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - ''La prima Angélica''. *2000 - Won: Sant Jordi; Best Film - ''Goya en Burdeos''.

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Official Webpage in Spanish
Spain in culture: official Website of Culture in Spain. Retrieved 26 January 2014. *Paul Julian Smith
Cría cuervos...: The Past Is Not Past.
'' DearCinema.com, 13 August 2007.'' Retrieved 26 January 2014. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saura, Carlos 1932 births Living people People from Huesca Spanish film directors Film directors from Aragon Spanish screenwriters Spanish male writers Male screenwriters Spanish photographers European Film Awards winners (people) Filmmakers who won the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award Best Director Goya Award winners Silver Bear for Best Director recipients Directors of Golden Bear winners Tango film directors Kristián Award winners