List of awards and nominations received by Pedro Almodóvar
.jpg) Almodóvar in 2017.
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| Nominations | 168 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pedro Almodóvar is a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, five British Academy Film Awards, three César Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, six Goya Awards, six European Film Awards, and two News & Documentary Emmy Awards. He has also received prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. He won the Honorary César in 1999 and the Honorary Golden Lion in 2019.
Acclaimed as one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, with his filmography gaining worldwide interest and developing a cult following. Known for his distinctive style of black-comedies and melodramas that explore themes like family, passion and desire, he has received several awards and nominations both in Spain and worldwide throughout his career.
He achieved international recognition for his black comedy-drama film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His next movies Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and The Flower of My Secret would continue his success at his home country, with both being nominated for the Goya Award for Best Director. In 1999 he released All About My Mother followed by Talk to Her in 2002, both received critical acclaim and won Academy Awards, the former won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film while the latter won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and he was nominated for Best Director.
Through the 2000s and the 2010s he released several films, Volver in 2006, Broken Embraces in 2009, The Skin I Live In in 2011, Julieta in 2016 and Pain and Glory in 2019, the latter being the third nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for one of his films. In 2019 he won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival.
Major associations
[edit]| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Best Director | Talk to Her | Nominated | [1] |
| Best Original Screenplay | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy Film Awards | ||||
| 1988 | Best Film not in the English Language | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Live Flesh | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Won | ||
| Best Direction | Won | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 2002 | Talk to Her | Won | ||
| Best Film not in the English Language | Won | |||
| 2004 | Bad Education | Nominated | [2] | |
| 2006 | Volver | Nominated | [3] | |
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Nominated | [4] | |
| 2011 | The Skin I Live In | Won | [5] | |
| 2016 | Julieta | Nominated | [6] | |
| 2019 | Pain and Glory | Nominated | [7] | |
| 2021 | Parallel Mothers | Nominated | [8] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
| 1999 | Best Foreign Language Film | All About My Mother | Won | [9] |
| 2002 | Talk to Her | Nominated | [10] | |
| 2006 | Volver | Nominated | [11] | |
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Won | [12] | |
| 2011 | The Skin I Live In | Nominated | [13] | |
| 2016 | Julieta | Nominated | [14] | |
| 2019 | Pain and Glory | Nominated | [15] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| News & Documentary Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2021 | Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary | The Silence of Others | Won | [16] |
| Best Documentary | Won | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Best Foreign Language Film | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Nominated | [17] |
| 1991 | High Heels | Nominated | [17] | |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Won | [17] | |
| 2002 | Talk to Her | Won | [17] | |
| 2006 | Volver | Nominated | [17] | |
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Nominated | [17] | |
| 2011 | The Skin I Live In | Nominated | [18] | |
| 2019 | Pain and Glory | Nominated | [19] | |
| 2021 | Parallel Mothers | Nominated | [17] |
Festival awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Teddy Award | Law of Desire | Won | [20] |
| 1990 | Golden Bear | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Palme d'Or | All About My Mother | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| 2006 | Best Screenplay | Volver | Won | |
| Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The Skin I Live In | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Julieta | Nominated | [21] | |
| |2019 | Pain and Glory | Nominated | [22] | |
| Queer Palm | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Golden Lion | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Nominated | |
| Best Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2019 | Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement | Won | ||
| 2021 | Golden Lion | Parallel Mothers | Nominated | |
| Queer Lion | Nominated | |||
| 2024 | Golden Lion | The Room Next Door | Won | |
| Brian Award | Won | |||
Miscellaneous awards
[edit]Critics associations
[edit]References
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