Pedro Almodovar

Biography

Born 09/25/1949

The most internationally popular and important Spanish director since Luis Bunuel, Pedro Almodovar fled the stifling Roman Catholicism of his provincial La Mancha at the age of 17 to do battle with the windmills of Madrid. Lacking the money to enter college, he peddled books and made jewelry before...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2006, received Cannes Film Festival for Best Screenplay
In 2002, received BAFTA for Film not in the English Language
In 2002, received BAFTA for Best Screenplay (Original)

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Highlights

In 2006, Earned rave reviews at Cannes when he premiered the bitter-sweet comedy "Volver" starring Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura
In 2004, Film "Bad Education," opened the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; wrote and directed the story of two boys and a priest in a Roman Catholic school in Spain in the 1960s, who are reunited about a decade later; received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Foreign Film
In 2002, Wrote and directed the romantic comedy "Hable Con Ella/Talk To Her"

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Family & Companions

father: bookkeeper for a local gas station in Extremadura; also hauled wine by donkey from Andalusia; died in 1980
Francisca Caballero: mother (appeared in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Atame!/Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!"; died in September 1999)

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