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Filmmaker · Spain

José Luis Garci

José Luis Garci was born in Madrid in 1944, into a family of Asturian origin. A bank employee, from the early sixties he wrote reviews for film magazines, for which the Circle of Film Writers gave him an award, as well as science fiction stories. A screenwriter from 1969, he co-wrote a television film that won an Emmy, then directed his first feature film in 1977. Four of his films have been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign film, more than any other Spanish filmmaker. For a long time he presented classic cinema on television and radio.

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