Directed by:
Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay:
Pedro AlmodóvarCinematography:
Affonso BeatoComposer:
Alberto IglesiasCast:
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Carmen Balagué, Pedro Almodóvar, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (more)VOD (3)
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This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Foreign Language Film)
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best International Film)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Director)
- 2000 - Best Film not in the English Language
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Original Screenplay)
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- 1999 - Best Foreign Independent - Foreign Language
European Film Awards
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Film)
- 1999 - Cecilia Roth (Best Actress)
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (People's Choice Award Best Director)
César Awards
- 2000 - Best Foreign Film
Goya Awards
- 2000 - Best Film
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Director)
- 2000 - Cecilia Roth (Best Actress)
- 2000 - José Salcedo (Best Editing)
- 2000 - Diego Garrido, José Antonio Bermúdez, Miguel Rejas (Best Sound)
- 2000 - Alberto Iglesias (Best Original Score)
- 2000 - Best Production Supervision
- 2000 - Candela Peña (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2000 - Antonia San Juan (Best New Actress)
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Original Screenplay)
- 2000 - Affonso Beato (Best Cinematography)
- 2000 - Antxón Gómez (Best Art Direction)
- 2000 - Bina Daigeler, José María de Cossío (Best Costume Design)
- 2000 - Best Make Up
German Film Awards
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Foreign Film)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2000 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Non-American Film)
Guldbagge Awards
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Foreign Film)
Golden Globes
- 2000 - Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Critics Choice Awards
- 2000 - Best Foreign Language Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Foreign-Language Film)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1999 - Best Foreign Language Film
Cannes Film Festival
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Best Director)
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (Golden Palm - Official Competition)
San Sebastián International Film Festival
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar (FIPRESCI Film of the Year)