Blogos de Oro - People

1. Isabel Ampudia

Isabel Ampudia was born in León, Spain. She is known for 15 Days with You (2005), Taxi (1996) and The Nameless (1999).

Best supporting actress in Spanish independent movie 2024 - Amanece

2. Víctor Clavijo

Víctor Clavijo was born on September 28, 1973 in Algeciras, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. He is an actor, known for The Ministry of Time (2015), The Wait (2023) and Before the Fall (2008).

Best leading actor in Spanish independent movie 2024 - The Wait

Renowned as one of Spain's most acclaimed independent filmmakers, his work has earned over a hundred film prizes and nominations worldwide (Berlin, Karlovy Vary, AFI Fest, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Sitges, etc). Two-time "Golden Melies" nominee (Best European Fantastic Film), Javier's filmography ...

Best director in Spanish independent movie 2024 - The Wait

4. Josep Maria Riera

Actor | Superlópez

Josep Maria Riera is known for Superlopez (2018), Idol X Warrior: Miracle Tunes! (European Version) (2018) and Iron Cock II.

Best supporting actor in Spanish independent movie 2024 - The coffee table

5. Estefanía de los Santos

Actress | La mesita del comedor

Estefanía de los Santos was born in 1975 in Seville, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Coffee Table (2022), Jaulas (2018) and Unit 7 (2012).

Best leading actress in Spanish independent movie 2024 - The coffee table

6. Mauro Cervera

Actor | Lejos del fuego

Mauro Cervera is known for Keep Away from Fire (2019), What We Know (2021) and Kansas (2014).

Best supporting actor in Spanish independent movie 2023 - El que sabem

7. Paula Díaz

Actress | Las Gentiles

Paula Díaz is known for Las Gentiles (2021), Mamacruz (2023) and Átropos.

Best supporting actress in Spanish independent movie 2023 - Las gentiles

8. Celia Novis

Writer | Once Upon A Place

Celia Novis is known for Once Upon A Place (2021), On Vampyres and Other Symptoms (2011) and The Minorcans: 250 years of survival (2018).

Best director in Spanish independent movie 2023 - Once upon a place

9. Raphaëlle Pérez

Actress | Mi vacío y yo

Raphaëlle Pérez is known for Mi vacío y yo (2022), The Odd-Job Men (2021) and Fuerza, Cuerpo, Embrujo: The Making of a Dior Cruise collection (2023).

Best leading actress in Spanish independent movie 2023 - Mi vacío y yo

10. Miguel Ángel Puro

Actor | A diente de perro

Miguel Ángel Puro is known for A diente de perro (2021), El Instinto and Insania (2019).

Best leading actor in Spanish independent movie 2023 - A diente de perro

11. Guillermo Benet

Producer | Los inocentes

Guillermo Benet is known for Los inocentes (2020), Los inocentes (2018) and Kisses (2013).

Best director in Spanish independent movie 2022 - Los inocentes

12. Jorge Cabrera

Actor | Lucas

Jorge Cabrera is known for Lucas (2021), Playback (2014) and Pozo (2020).

Best supporting actor in Spanish independent movie 2022 - Lucas

13. Ricardo Gómez

Actor | La Ruta

Ricardo Gómez was born on February 25, 1994 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He is an actor and producer, known for La Ruta (2022), The Replacement (2021) and Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001).

Best leading actor in Spanish independent movie 2022 - Mia & Moi

14. Lorena López

Actress | Amor en polvo

Lorena López is known for Instant Love (2019), Les vacances de Mara (2023) and Nosaltres no ens matarem amb pistoles (2022).

Best supporting actress in Spanish independent movie 2022 - La última cena

15. Petra Martínez

Actress | Mientras duermes

Petra Martínez was born on June 24, 1944 in Jaén, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for Sleep Tight (2011), La vida era eso (2020) and Heirs (2007). She is married to Juan Margallo. They have one child.

Best leading actress in Spanish independent movie 2022 - That was life

16. Javier Botet

Actor | It

Javier Botet was born on July 30, 1977 in Ciudad Real, Spain. He is an actor and writer, known for It (2017), Amigo (2019) and The Mummy (2017).

Best leading actor in Spanish independent movie 2021 - Amigo

17. Patricia López Arnaiz

Actress | Ane

Patricia López Arnaiz was born on April 15, 1981 in Vitoria, Spain. She is an actress, known for Ane Is Missing (2020), 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) and One for All (2020).

Best leading actress in Spanish independent movie 2021 - Ane is missing

18. Pilar Palomero

Writer | La maternal

Pilar Palomero is known for La maternal (2022), Schoolgirls (2020) and Niño balcón (2008).

Best director in Spanish independent movie 2021 - The girls

19. Milo Taboada

Actor | El mestre que va prometre el mar

Milo Taboada is a Spanish actor, born in A Coruña, Galicia, on March 12, 1981. His parents, Carmen and Emilio, had two other children, Lorena and Isabel, Milo being the middle child. He began his training in his hometown, under the guidance of Manuel Lourenzo and Casa Hamlet. Later, he moved to ...

Best supporting actor in Spanish independent movie 2021 - The island of lies

20. Victoria Teijeiro

Actress | Nowhere

Victoria Teijeiro was born on November 13, 1977 in A Coruña, Spain. She is an actress, known for Nowhere (2023), The Island of Lies (2020) and A lei de Santos (2020).

Best supporting actress in Spanish independent movie 2021 - The island of lies

21. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2019 - The lighthouse

22. Jared Harris

Actor | Chernobyl

Jared Francis Harris was born in London, England. He is the son of Irish actor Richard Harris and Welsh actress Elizabeth Harris (Elizabeth Rees), and brother of Damian Harris and Jamie Harris. Despite his lineage, Jared showed little interest in becoming an actor, until he was cast in a college ...

Best actor in a TV show 2019 - Chernobyl

23. Scarlett Johansson

Actress | Lost in Translation

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...

Best actress in a leading role 2019 - Marriage story Best actress in a supporting role 2019 - Jojo Rabbit

24. Sam Mendes

Producer | 1917

Samuel Alexander Mendes was born on August 1, 1965 in Reading, England, UK to parents James Peter Mendes, a retired university lecturer, and Valerie Helene Mendes, an author who writes children's books. Their marriage didn't last long, James divorced Sam's mother in 1970 when Sam was just 5-...

Best director 2019 - 1917

25. Joaquin Phoenix

Actor | Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...

Best actor in a leading role 2019 - Joker

26. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Actress | Solo: A Star Wars Story

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-2019). She was also the show-runner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller ...

Best actress in a TV show 2019 - Fleabag

27. Amy Adams

Actress | Arrival

Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...

Best actress in a TV show 2018 - Sharp objects Best actress in a leading role 2016 - Arrival

28. Mahershala Ali

Actor | Leave the World Behind

Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.

He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2018 - Green book

29. Toni Collette

Actress | The Sixth Sense

Toni Collette is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress, best known for her roles in The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

Collette was born Toni Collett (she later added an "e") on November 1, 1972, in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is the first of three...

Best actress in a leading role 2018 - Hereditary

30. Alfonso Cuarón

Producer | Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...

Best director 2018 - Roma Best director 2013 - Gravity

31. Rami Malek

Actor | Bohemian Rhapsody

Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors ...

Best actor in a leading role 2018 - Bohemian Rhapsody

32. Javier Rey

Actor | Fariña

Javier Rey was born on February 25, 1980 in Galicia, Spain. He is an actor, known for Fariña (2018), Sin fin (2018) and Not the End (2014).

Best actor in a TV show 2018 - Fariña (Cocaine Coast)

33. Emma Stone

Actress | La La Land

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...

Best actress in a supporting role 2018 - The favourite Best actress in a supporting role 2014 - Birdman

34. Belén Cuesta

Actress | La Llamada

Belén Cuesta was born on January 24, 1984 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Holy Camp! (2017), Paquita Salas (2016) and The Endless Trench (2019).

Best actress in a supporting role 2017 - La llamada (Holy Camp!)

35. James Franco

Actor | Spring Breakers

Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...

Best actor in a leading role 2017 - The disaster artist

36. Aura Garrido

Actress | El ministerio del tiempo

Aura Garrido Sánchez is a Spanish film and television actress. She has appeared in such films as Stockholm as well as the television series El Ministerio Del Tiempo.

Garrido was born in Madrid in 1989. Her father Tomás Garrido is a composer and orchestra conductor, and her mother, Pilar Sánchez, is ...

Best actress in a TV show 2017 - El ministerio del tiempo (The ministry of time)

37. Javier Gutiérrez

Actor | La isla mínima

Javier Gutiérrez was born on January 17, 1971 in Luanco, Asturias, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for Marshland (2014), The Motive (2017) and Champions (2018).

Best actor in a TV show 2017 - Vergüenza

38. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

Best actress in a leading role 2017 - Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

39. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

Best director 2017 - Dunkirk

40. Sam Rockwell

Actor | Moon

Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2017 - Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

41. Millie Bobby Brown

Actress | Enola Holmes

Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ...

Best actress in a TV show 2016 - Stranger things

42. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2016 - Hell or High water

43. Benedict Cumberbatch

Actor | The Imitation Game

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...

Best actor in a TV show 2016 - Sherlock

44. Viola Davis

Actress | Fences

Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...

Best actress in a supporting role 2016 - Fences

45. Antonio de la Torre

Actor | Balada triste de trompeta

Antonio studied journalism, but he always knew he wanted to be an actor. He worked as a sports journalist in Canal Sur Radio and Television. During this period, he often traveled to Madrid so he could assist to the Cristina Rota acting school. His first role in cinema was in Los peores años de ...

Best actor in a leading role 2016 - Tarde para la ira (The fury of a patient man)

46. Denis Villeneuve

Director | Dune

Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...

Best director 2016 - Arrival

47. Inma Cuesta

Actress | La novia

Inma Cuesta was born on June 25, 1980 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Bride (2015), Águila Roja (2009) and Three Many Weddings (2013).

Best actress in a leading role 2015 - La novia (The bride)

48. Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor | Inception

Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...

Best actor in a leading role 2015 - The Revenant Best actor in a leading role 2013 - The wolf of Wall Street

49. Tom Hardy

Actor | Inception

With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...

Best actor in a supporting role 2015 - The Revenant

50. Jennifer Jason Leigh

Actress | The Hateful Eight

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina ...

Best actress in a supporting role 2015 - The hateful eight

51. George Miller

Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...

Best director 2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road

52. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Director | Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.

González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...

Best director 2014 - Birdman

53. Jake Gyllenhaal

Actor | Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...

Best actor in a leading role 2014 - Nightcrawler

54. Bárbara Lennie

Actress | Magical Girl

Bárbara Lennie was born on April 20, 1984 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for Magical Girl (2014), Everybody Knows (2018) and El nino (2014).

Best actress in a leading role 2014 - Magical Girl

55. J.K. Simmons

Actor | Whiplash

J.K. Simmons is an American actor.

He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).

He had ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2014 - Whiplash

56. Jared Leto

Actor | Dallas Buyers Club

Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...

Best actor in a supporting role 2013 - Dallas Buyers Club

57. Jennifer Lawrence

Actress | The Hunger Games

As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...

Best actress in a supporting role 2013 - American Hustle

58. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

Best actress in a leading role 2013 - Blue Jasmine