Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born on 25 September 1949) is a Spanish movie chief, screenwriter, maker, and previous entertainer.

His movies are set apart by drama, contemptuous humor, striking tone, shiny stylistic layout, citations from mainstream society, and complex stories.

Want, enthusiasm, family, and personality are among Almodóvar's most predominant subjects in his movies. He is known for his joint efforts with entertainers like Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz. 

He came to unmistakable quality as a chief and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a social renaissance that trailed the finish of Francoist Spain. His initial not many movies described the feeling of sexual and political opportunity of the period.

In 1986, he set up his film creation organization, El Deseo, with his more youthful sibling Agustín Almodóvar, who has been liable for delivering every one of his movies since Law of Desire (1987). 

Almodóvar accomplished global acknowledgment for his dark parody show film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was selected for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and proceeded to additional accomplishment with movies, for example, the dull lighthearted comedy Tie Me Up! Secure Me! (1990), the acting High Heels (1991), and the heartfelt dramatization spine chiller Live Flesh (1997).

His ensuing two movies, All About My Mother (1999) and Talk to Her (2002), procured him an Academy Award each, for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay separately.

He followed this with films like the dramatization Volver (2006), the heartfelt spine-chiller Broken Embraces (2009), the thrill ride The Skin I Live In (2011), and the shows Julieta (2016) and Pain and Glory (2019), which were all in rivalry for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Acclaimed as perhaps the most globally fruitful Spanish filmmaker, Almodóvar and his movies have acquired overall interest and fostered a faction following.

He has won two Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, six European Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, nine Goya Awards, and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 1997, Almodóvar got the French Legion of Honor, trailed by the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1999.

He was chosen a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and got a privileged doctoral certificate in 2009 from Harvard University notwithstanding a privileged doctoral certificate from the University of Oxford in 2016 for his commitment to artistic expression.

In 2013, he got a privileged European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award. 

In January 2017 he was named as President of the Jury for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2019, he was granted the Honorary Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. 

Following long stretches of widely praised joint effort, Penélope Cruz had only applause for Parallel Mothers essayist and chief Pedro Almodóvar as their film finished off the 59th New York Film Festival on Friday. 

"He resembles family to me. We're truly close. We see one another. We can guess each other's thoughts. We can never mislead one another. We don't attempt. In this way, all of that — it simply helps and makes it simple to work with one another," she tells her kindred Spaniard. 

"Nonetheless, on set, we try to give each other space, so we keep up with deference for each other… It's a decent equilibrium we have. It's been similar to a long time since I met him, and 25 years cooperating, and I trust some more. He's truly uncommon," Cruz adds. 

Almodóvar, 72, and Cruz, 47, have cooperated on seven distinct movies after she originally saw his film Tie Me Up! Secure Me! in 1990 — Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and, most as of late, Parallel Mothers (2021). 

"I feel he's one of the main individuals to offer me a great deal of chance to get things done. He envisions me in things he hasn't seen me do, he pushes me to be dynamic."

"He's the explanation I chose to turn into an entertainer. Without fail, he gives me new material, that permits me to take a stab at a novel, new thing. It's consistently unique for me."

"Such countless complex jobs. This [Parallel Mothers] is the most difficult one, however, I say that happily," the entertainer concedes. 

Fortunately for Cruz and crowds throughout the planet, her diligent effort and commitment paid off, broadly bringing about a best-supporting entertainer Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008, just as two further assignments, including the best entertainer gesture for Volver. Almodóvar has additionally won two Academy Awards across five selections. 

"I grew up watching his movies, he was the explanation I attempted to go to a venue school, discover a specialist with the expectation I could work for himself and look," she shares. 

Equal Mothers additionally stars Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma and had its reality debut in September at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. 

While it was delivered in Spain this end of the week, Parallel Mothers will be in U.S. theaters on Dec. 24.