Biography
Andr茅s Vicente G贸mez (Madrid, 16 September 1943) is a Spanish film producer, head of Lolafilms, with more than 100 films to his credit. G贸mez is the winner of an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language film for "Belle Epoque". Together with the prizes won at festivals like Berlin, Venice, Montreal and San Sebastian, Gomez麓s near annual presence at the Spanish Goya Film Awards make him the Spanish producer with most national and international awards to his name. Many of Spain麓s most successful box-office hits have been produced by Andr茅s Vicente G贸mez, who has worked with directors such as Fernando Trueba, Pedro Almod贸var, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Vicente Aranda, 脕lex de la Iglesia, Manuel Guti茅rrez Arag贸n, Pilar Mir贸, Santiago Segura, Jose Luis Garc铆a S谩nchez, John Malkovich, and Ray Loriga, amongst others. In recognition for his work as one of the producers most contributing to cinema, in 1998 the Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to G贸mez with a special homage. As a film distributor from the early 1970s onwards, Andr茅s Vicente G贸mez has brought an eclectic selection of international films to Spanish audiences, with classics from directors like Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Akira Kurosawa, as well as Oscar scooping titles like "The Last Emperor", "Dances With Wolves", "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Henry V". G贸mez has distributed the work of numerous cult directors like Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Bresson, Claude Chabrol, Peter Greenaway, Shoei Imamura, Krzysztof Kieslovski, Alain Resnais, Fran莽ois Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier, as well as introducing the independent voices of directors like Hal Hartley, Neil Jordan, Paul Morrisey, Tim Robbins and Alan Rudolph. (Wikipedia)
