FILM DIRECTOR

José Luis Cuerda

1947 - 2020

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José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 1947 – 4 February 2020) was a Spanish filmmaker. He is nationally recognised and considered to be amongst the greatest and most influential Spanish directors of all time, having made such critically successful and culturally significant films as The Enchanted Forest (1987), Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989) and Butterfly's Tongue (1999). His films won four Goya Awards over the course of his career: Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for The Enchanted Forest, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Butterfly's Tongue and The Blind Sunflowers (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José Luis Cuerda is the 1,273rd most popular film director (down from 1,245th in 2019), the 1,759th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Spanish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, José Luis Cuerda ranks 1,273 out of 2,041. Before him are James Algar, Peter R. Hunt, Jaume Balagueró, Andrew Adamson, Stan Brakhage, and Tommy Lee Wallace. After him are Cai Chusheng, Gregory Ratoff, Feng Xiaogang, Max Hardcore, Peter Berg, and Alfred E. Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, José Luis Cuerda ranks 663. Before him are Keri Hulme, Mercedes Sampietro, Vladimir Ilyin, Mary Kay Place, Patrick Chesnais, and Olivier Rolin. After him are Vincent Matthews, Arthur Schnabel, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, Joseph Nicolosi, Ruhakana Rugunda, and Yuri Semin. Among people deceased in 2020, José Luis Cuerda ranks 594. Before him are Vitold Kreyer, Ernesto Canto, Arturo Chaires, Francisco Aguilar, Ram Vilas Paswan, and Ivan Bohdan. After him are Vladimir Andreyev, Tatyana Prorochenko, Diane di Prima, Ignacio Trelles, Vidin Apostolov, and Tomás Herrera Martínez.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José Luis Cuerda ranks 1,759 out of 3,355. Before him are José Guardiola (1930), Elvira Lindo (1962), Francisco Aguilar (1949), Federico Chueca (1846), Oleguer Presas (1980), and María Teresa Fernández de la Vega (1949). After him are Emma Suárez (1964), Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde (1848), Jesús Loroño (1926), Alejandro Balde (2003), Juan Jover (1903), and J. A. Bayona (1975).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Spain

Among film directors born in Spain, José Luis Cuerda ranks 25. Before him are Rafael Azcona (1926), Jaume Collet-Serra (1974), Pilar Miró (1940), Agustí Villaronga (1953), Luis Alcoriza (1918), and Jaume Balagueró (1968). After him are J. A. Bayona (1975), Antonio Mercero (1936), Javier Aguirresarobe (1948), Rafael Gil (1913), Albert Serra (1975), and Fernando Colomo (1946).

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