Pedro Almodóvar, Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Oxford

The winner of two Oscar awards, receives his third academic distinction as Honoris Causa.

The University of Oxford has invested Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities to the Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Pedro Almodóvar.

The winner of two Oscar awards, receives his third academic distinction as Honoris Causa after the titles granted by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) or Harvard University (USA)

The professor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oxford, Richard Jenkyns, defined Almodóvar before the attentive look of the rector, Chris Patten, as “a person who inspires devotion and solidarity. Many actors, and above all actresses, have participated in their tapes. As Ulysses, he has his Penelope, and as César, also to his victory. challenging that has reached our hearts. ”

Born in Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) on September 25, 1949) he is currently the director and producer with the highest international projection. Among numerous decorations he has the recognition of a gentleman of the order of the French Legion of Honor (1997) or the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1998).

Among his long filmography, films such as Labyrinth of passions, matador, women on the edge of a nervous attack, distant heels, the flower of my secret, talk to her, return, the skin that I live or the newly released Julieta.

Together with Almodóvar, the American economist Paul Krugman, the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, composer Arvo Pärt and the soprano Jesse Norman, have received the honoris cause of Oxford.