''This is not the place for a fan club. If you like it, why do I have to like it???
What I like is rated the way I think. I don+t think with your head but with mine!''
Spanish film director, screenwriter and author
awards
1. Oscar: won 2, nominations 2
2. Golden GLobe: won 2, nominations 3
3. BAFTA; won 5, nominations 6
4. Goya: won 6, nominations 16
5. Ceasar: won 4, nominations 3 + Honorary Ceasar 1
6. Cannes Festival: won 2
7. Golden Lion: for life's work 1
8. Satellite Award: best senario 1, nominations 1
9. European Film Award for Best Director: won 2, nominations 2
Score: won 25, nominations 33
- directed 22 movies
- Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, (1980)
- Laberinto de pasiones (1982)
- Entre tinieblas (1983.
- ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1985)
- Matador (1986)
- La Ley del deseo (1986)
- Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios(1987)
- ¡Átame! (1989)
- Tacones lejanos ( 1991)
- Kika ( (1993)
- La Flor de mi secreto ( 1995)
- Carne trémula,(1997)
- Todo sobre mi madre ( 1998)
- Hable con ella (2001)
- La mala educación ( 2004)
- Volver (2006)
- Abrazos Rotos ( 2009)
- La piel que habito (2011)
- Los amantes pasajeros (2013)
- Julieta (2016)
- Dolor y gloria ( 2019)
- Madres Paralelas ( 2021)