# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-luis-cuerda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:13:02.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-luis-cuerda"
name: "José Luis Cuerda"
slug: "jose-luis-cuerda"
description: "José Luis Cuerda Martínez was a Spanish filmmaker. He is nationally recognised and considered to be amongst the greatest and most influential Spanish directors of all time, having made such critically successful and culturally significant films as The Enchanted Forest (1987), Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989) and Butterfly's Tongue (1999). His films won four Goya Awards over the course of his career: Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for The Enchanted Forest, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Butterfly's Tongue and The Blind Sunflowers (2008)."
tagline: "Spanish film director (1947–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rodaje_de_la_pel%C3%ADcula_%E2%80%98Tiempo_Despu%C3%A9s%E2%80%99_(37493401910)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-02-18"
deathDate: "2020-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.58
  momentum:             1.784386617100371
  historical:           17.43114533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191109/"
    handle:    "nm0191109"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump