Ãlex de la Iglesia
Álex de la Iglesia (actually Alejandro de la Iglesia, born December 4, 1965 in Bilbao, Spain ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Between June 2009 and February 2011, he was the president of the Spanish Film Academy.
Biography
In the adolescent age he began drawing comics. Models were him while Stan Lee, Manuel Vázquez and Alex Raymond. After studying philosophy at the University of Deusto, he came as a production designer for television and was responsible for the equipment with Enrique Urbizus four times Goya -nominated thriller Todo por la pasta from the year 1991. 1991 published De la Iglesia also his short horror film with Álex Angulo Mirindas asesinas in the lead role. Due to the short film was among other Pedro Almodóvar aware of him who wanted his next film, Action mutant produce. The 2.5 million -US-dollar science fiction comedy came on 3 February 1993 and won prizes at several film festivals as well as three Goyas. De la Iglesia was also nominated for the Goya for Best New Director, but had to Julio Médem ( Vacas - cows) to admit defeat.
An even greater success as an action mutant was El día de la bestia, in the Álex Angulo again played a major role. The movie is about a priest who believes that the Antichrist would be born on Christmas in Madrid, and tried to prevent this with two colleagues. The horror - comedy, which was awarded several prizes at film festivals and grossed more than four million euros in the Spanish cinema, was nominated for fourteen Goya and won in six categories, including Best Director. It was followed by the road movie Perdita Durango with Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem and the comedy Muertos de risa with Santiago Segura and El Gran Wyoming. The black comedy thriller The Hughleys - La comunidad, who was in Spain with box office receipts of over six million euros, another great commercial success, is about the real estate agent Julia (played by Carmen Maura ), which appropriates the assets of a deceased neighbors and must then enforce against its other neighbors who have also apart on the money there. The film won the award at the Goya 2001 in three categories and was in twelve other - including Best Picture and Best Director - nominated.
In the Western Comedy 800 Bullets from 2002, he led not only directed and wrote the script, but also produced its own first film, which he repeated in his next project, a perfect crime. A ferpektes crimes received nominations at the award ceremony of the European Film Prize 2005 and the Goyas in 2005, but other films had to admit defeat in all categories.
For his feature film Mad Circus - A Ballad of Love and Death, the grotesquely over turns denouncing the atrocities of the Franco regime with a sad clown at the center, won the Best Director Award at Iglesia 2010 the 67th Film Festival of Venice.