José Luis Garci, RNE Sant Jordi Award for Cinematography

The director, producer, screenwriter and literary critic José Luis Garci has been recognized for his career at the 67th edition of the Awards RNE St. George of Cinematography.

Garci presented the outreach program for ten years!How great is cinema! in La 2 and was the first Spanish director to win an Oscar in 1983 for start over. The award is a tribute to his figure as a filmmaker and popularizer.

Born in Madrid in 1944, José Luis Garci discovered cinema as a child and felt fascinated. His first jobs in the world of cinema were as a screenwriter, collaborating with Antonio Mercero and José Luis Dibildos, among others. The stage as director he started in 1975 and soon achieved success: it was in 1977 with Pending subject, written with José María González-Sinde. The following year it premiered Alone in the morning and completed the trilogy with The green meadows.

They are passion for crime novel led him to direct El crack in 1981. The following year he directed start over, a reflection on exile that, despite not succeeding in theaters, awarded the Oscar for best non-English language film 40 years ago. It is not the only time that Garci has been nominated for this award, the stories afternoon session (1984), Approved subject (1987) y The grandfather (1988) also competed for the Hollywood award.

Garci's films have also been recognized with the Goya award for best director for Approved subject (1988) and has to his credit the National Cinematography Award (1992) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1997).

In his career, the part of cinematographic dissemination stands out, known above all for the program How great is cinema!, which he presented on La 2 between 1995 and 2005. The space, very followed and valued, taught the general public to love classic cinema with the broadcast and analysis of the best cinematographic works.

Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, the Sant Jordi Awards wanted to highlight José Luis Garci for his career as a filmmaker and disseminator of the seventh art.