Pedro Almodovar
Biography
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9/24/1949, Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, SpainBirth Name
Pedro Almodovar CaballeroGender
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The Academy Awards
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S 75:
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The 75th Annual Academy Awards
3/23/03
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S 72:
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The 72nd Annual Academy Awards
3/26/00
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S 75:
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The 75th Annual Academy Awards
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Eurotrash
Himself
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The Academy Awards
Trivia and Quotes
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In 1992, Pedro was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
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He often casts his mother Francisca Caballero and brother Agustin Almodovar in his films.
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His trademark is that his films often have transsexuals and strong female characters. His other trademark is he often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular storylines.
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Pedro Almodovar [on his experience in the Catholic boarding school he lived in as a young man and on which Mala educación, La (2004) is based]: The education we received was about guilt, sin, punishment.
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Pedro Almodovar: My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for filmaking than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I have always found it easy to let my imagination go. You do not just need imagination for filmaking, you also need a lot of passion. When I discovered filmaking as a way of telling stories, I felt that I had found something that was in my nature. I am glad that I had this ambition to be a novelist because it has helped me in filmaking.
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Pedro Almodovar: In the last decade you can count the number of Hollywood dramas that have revolved around women. The studios have forgotten that women are fascinating.
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