Via Zinema:
According to a poll organized by SigmaDos, Pedro Almodóvar is the best known Spanish film director among Spanish citizens. Almodóvar was identified by 69 per cent of Spaniards.
He is followed by:
- Academy Award winner and multiple Goya winner (for The Sea Inside) Alejandro Amenábar (34.3%);
- Academy Award nominee (for The Grandfather) José Luis Garci (13.4);
- Academy Award winner (for Belle Epoque) Fernando Trueba (10.7);
- Academy Award nominee (for Placido) Luis García Berlanga (6.3);
- Alex de la Iglesia (6.2; Perfect Crime);
- Santiago Segura (4.6; Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley and its sequels);
- Bigas Luna (4; Jamón, jamón);
- Academy Award nominee (for Carmen) Carlos Saura (3.4);
- and Antonio Banderas (2); who has taken to directing in the last few years.
The only female director among the poll's top 20 is Isabel Coixet, whose English-language drama The Secret Life of Words, starring Tim Robbins and Sarah Polley, won the Goya Award for best film of 2005.
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