Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo (born 16 September 1981) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the
Goya Award for Best Director
The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor dirección'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards. Fernando Fernán ...
and the
Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay
The Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay (Spanish ''Premio Goya al mejor guión original'') 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 p ...
for ''
The Realm''.
He was previously nominated for the
Goya Award for Best New Director
The Goya Award for Best New Director ( es, Premio Goya a la Mejor Dirección Novel, links=no) is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being th ...
for ''
Stockholm'', and the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''
May God Save Us
''May God Save Us'' ( es, Que Dios nos perdone, links=no, translation, May God Forgive Us) is a 2016 Spanish crime thriller film directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and written by Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña. It stars Antonio de la Torre and Roberto Ál ...
''. For the short film ''
Mother
]
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...
'', Sorogoyen won the
Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film
The Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film ( es, Premio Goya a la mejor cortometraje de ficción) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. From 1989 to 1991 there was only one award for short films under the name ''Best ...
and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957.
From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...
.
He often works in tandem with
Isabel Peña.
Biography
Born on 16 September 1981 in
Madrid
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, Rodrigo Sorogoyen is the grandson of filmmaker
Antonio del Amo.
Graduated in history from the
Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loc ...
, he entered the
ECAM in 2004.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
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1981 births
Living people
Best Director Goya Award winners
Spanish screenwriters
Film directors from the Community of Madrid
21st-century Spanish screenwriters
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