Carlos Saura He received the Goya de Honor 2023 a few days ago. The filmmaker died just one day before the 37th edition of the Goya Awards was held in Seville. He has died at the age of 91, due to respiratory failure. He leaves behind his “travel companion”, Lali, and her seven children, the fruit of four different marriages.
Director of Oh, Carmela!, was born on January 4, 1932 in Huesca. In his adolescence he dedicated himself to photography and also wanted to be an industrial engineer, but, advised by his brother, he entered the School of Cinematography. His career began in the 1960s with The gulfs.
He had seven children with four different women. TO Adela Medranohis first wife, he met her in 1957 at the university and with her he had his two eldest children, Antonio y Carlos. Both have dedicated themselves to the world of cinema: the first is in charge of a production company and the second is also a director.
With the American actress Geraldine Chaplin had to Shane in 1974. After more than a decade together, they broke up because Saura fell in love with the baby’s nanny, mercedes perez. Shane is 36 years old, lives in the United States and had no relationship with his father.
With Mercedes Pérez he formed his second marriage, from which they were born Manuel, Adrian y Diego between 1984 and 1987. They said ‘yes, I want’ in a civil ceremony attended by figures such as Marisol and Antonio Gades. The love broke up in the early 90s.
In 2006 he married Eulalia Ramon, Forget ithis faithful “travel companion”, as he himself defined her on October 6 when he was awarded the Goya de Honor 2023. Their love story began on the film sets Shoot, where she worked as an actress. From her romance was born Anna, who is 28 years old today and is dedicated to acting. “My only legacy is my children, they have to have some of my DNA. Everything else is blown away by the wind,” she said in an interview with Oskar Belategui.
Saura, throughout his career, won the Goya for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Oh, Carmela! and the Academy’s Gold Medal in 1992. His films from the 70s and 80s opened “markets and prestige” for Spanish cinema, being recognized at the most important festivals. The Huesca filmmaker has directed films such as the gulfs, The hunt, Peppermint Frappe, Ana and the wolves, Cousin Angelica, Mom is a hundred years old, hurry up, Carmen, flamenco, flamenco, Sevillanas, the seventh day, I Don Giovanni y Goya in Bordeauxamong other titles that consecrate him as one of the greatest exponents of Spanish cinema
On October 6, the Academy announced its Goya de Honor. “Thanks to the Academy, I receive this award with great joy and enthusiasm. I am 90 years old and I will be 91 in January and there are more than 50 films, including feature films and documentaries, that have filled a large part of my life as a professional: the other one has been my six sons and my daughter Anna”, she thanked in a letter that two of her children, Antonio and Anna herself, read at the Academy. That October 6, Saura did not go to the Film Academy in Madrid, suffering from the fall for which he did not attend the San Sebastián Film Festival weeks ago. “I have been lucky in life to do what attracted me the most and I hope to continue doing it. I give thanks to life, which has given me so much,” he conveyed.