Luis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou (1929) is a 16-minute surrealist short film co-created by Luis Buñuel and the artist Salvador Dalí, famous for its shocking opening sequence involving the slicing of an eyeball with a razor. The film has no conventional plot, instead presenting a series of dreamlike, irrational images deliberately designed to subvert narrative logic.

Buñuel was born in Spain, made his early surrealist films in France, worked extensively in Mexico where he became a citizen in 1949, and later returned to Europe for his final films. His Mexican period produced acclaimed works like Los Olvidados (1950), which won him the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Buñuel and Dalí collaborated on Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Âge d'Or (1930) but had a bitter falling out afterward, reportedly over Dalí's political sympathies and personal disputes. They never worked together again, though Dalí later went on to design dream sequences for Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945).

Yes, Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), a satirical film about a group of bourgeois friends who are perpetually unable to sit down and finish a meal, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for that same film.