Carlos Suárez (cinematographer)

This article is about the cinematographer. For other people named Carlos Suárez, see Carlos Suárez.

Carlos Suárez (1946 – 19 October 2019)^[1][2] was a Spanish cinematographer who worked in various movies like Oviedo Express, Dagon, El Portero, Don Juan en los infiernos and El detective y la muerte.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

He was the younger brother of film director Gonzalo Suarez, with whom he collaborated several times. He occasionally acted in movies like La Raza Nunca Pierde - Huele a Gas and Guyana: Cult of the Damned and was the director and writer for The Secret Garden, a 1984 movie.^[9] He was the winner of the 1988 Goya Award for Best Cinematography for the film Remando al viento (Rowing with the Wind).^[10]

Awards and nominations

Goya Awards

Category	Year	Film	Result	Ref
Best cinematographer	2008	La conjura de El Escorial	Nominated	[11]
	2007	Oviedo Express	Nominated	[12]
	1991	Don Juan en los infiernos	Nominated	[11]
	1988	Remando al viento	Won	[13]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1969	Gladiadores del siglo XX	Yes	Yes	No	Documentary short film Co-directed with Joaquín Lledo
1973	Al Diablo, con amor	No	Yes	No
1984	El Jardín Secreto	Yes	Yes	No
1992	Makinavaja, el último choriso	Yes	Yes	Yes	Based on the Makinavaja comics
1993	¡¡Semos peligrosos!! (useasé Makinavaja 2)	Yes	Yes	Yes
1996	Adios, Tiburón	Yes	Yes	No
	Los Porretas	Yes	Yes	No

References

1. CITWF person databse
2. "Muere el cineasta ovetense Carlos Suárez". 20 October 2019.
3. 'Orphanage,' 'Roses' lead Goya noms, Hollywood Reporter, by Pamela Rolfe, Associated Press, December 2007
4. The New York Times, Oviedo Express, Cast and crew
5. A Companion to Spanish Cinema, By Bernard P. E. Bentley, page 260
6. TMZ, September 2015
7. Gabriel García Márquez and the Cinema: Life and Works, By Alessandro Rocco, Page 189
8. H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture: The Works and Their Adaptations in Film ... By Don G. Smith, Page 111
9. Hollywood.com, Carlos Suarez, Filmography
10. Great Spanish Films Since 1950, By Ronald Schwartz, Page 203
11. "Cronología Premios Goya". ABC.es. 2010. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
12. "Premios Goya 2008". El Mundo. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
13. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2015-12-05.

External links

• Carlos Suárez at IMDb