Pedro Almódovar

By Andre Ward
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/pedro_almodovar/
Renowned Spanish moviemaker Pedro Almodóvar was born today in 1949. He first earned international recognition for 1988's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1990 BAFTA awards. His fame rose higher when All About My Mother (1999), an ensemble drama about family identities, won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.