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José Luis Garci (born as ''José Luis García Muñoz''; 20 January 1944) is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for ''Begin the Beguine'' (1982). Four of his films, including also ''Sesión continua'' (1984), ''Asignatura aprobada'' (1987) and ''El abuelo'' (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots. ==Early life and work== Born in 1944 in a humble family from Asturias. After completing a pre-university course, Garci began working as an administrative assistant in a bank. His love for cinema from an early age led him to pursue filmmaking as a career. At age twenty he began writing reviews for a number of film magazines such as: ''Signos'', ''Cinestudio'', ''Aun'' and ''Resena'', winning an award in 1968 from the Circulo de Escritores Cinematograficos for his work as film critic. At the same time, he wrote his first literary works, science fiction stories like : ''Bibidibabibidibú'', ''Adam Blake,'' and ''La Gioconda está triste''. He also published the essay: Ray Bradbury humanista del futuro and an article about science fiction films in the ''Encyclopedia Buru-La''. In 1969 he became involved in scriptwriting, receiving his first screen credits for Antonio Giménez Rico ''The Cronicón'' (The Chronicle) (1970). Between 1972 and 1977 he scripted five more films: León Klimovsky ''La casa de las chivas'' (''The House of the goats''); Pedro Olea ''No es bueno que el hombre esté solo'' (1972), (A Man Shouldn’t be Alone); Eloy de la Iglesia ''Una gota de sangre para morir amando'', (1973) (A drop of blood to die loving); Antonio Drove ''Mi mujer es muy decente dentro de lo que cabe'' (1974) o Roberto Bodegas Vida conyugal sana (1973)(Healthy Married Life) and ''Los nuevos españoles'' (1974)(New Spaniards). During this same period, Garci also wrote the made for T.V film ''La Cabina'' (1972)(The Cabin) directed by Antonio Mercero. He then directed his first short films: ''!Al Futbol!'' (!To Football!) Mi Marilyn, (My Marilyn) (both 1975) and ''Tiempo de gente acobardada'' (People Cowed Time) (1976). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Luis Garci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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