Fernando Trueba
Film director
1955 –
Who is Fernando Trueba?
Fernando Trueba is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.
Between 1974 and 1979 he worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper El Pais. In 1980, he founded the monthly film magazine Casablanca, which he edited and directed during its first two years. He is the author of Diccionario and the editor of Diccionario del Jazz Latino.
Among other awards, he has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Belle Époque in 1994, the Goya Award as Best Director three times and a Silver Bear for Year of Enlightment at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Miracle of Candeal won the Goya for Best Documentary, and Chico and Rita won the Goya for Best Feature Animation. In 1999, The Girl of Your Dreams was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2011 he won the Award of the Hungarian National Student Jury for Chico and Rita at the 7th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials.
As a music producer he has won two Grammy Awards and four Latin Grammy Awards.
He is the brother of David Trueba and the father of Jonás Trueba.
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- Born
- Jan 18, 1955
Madrid - Also known as
- Fernando Rodríguez Trueba
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- Atheism
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- Spain
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- Madrid
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on July 23, 2013
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