Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1908. Before being a director, he was a race driver and athlete. Made his first short film, the silent picture, “Douro, Faina Fluvial”, in 1931. In the 1940s, he became a winemaker. He returned to cinema in the 1970s with authorial films that made him one of the most important directors in history. Oliveira had all of his movies since “Ill-Fated Love” (1978, 3rd Mostra) presented at Mostra. He gained a complete retrospective of his work at the 15th Mostra, in 1991, and at the 29th Mostra, in 2005. He won the Mostra’s Special Festival Award with “The Cannibals” (1988, 12nd Mostra), the Critics Prize for “Abraham’s Valley” (1993, 17th Mostra) and “I’m Going Home” (2001, 25th Mostra), and the Humanity Award for the ensemble of his work (2004, 28th Mostra). He also directed the segment “From Visible to Invisible”, part of the film “Invisible World” (2011, 35th Mostra), produced by Mostra. He died in 2015 at the age of 106.
