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My Take
Miguel Gomes is one of those directors I find easy to admire and hard to summarize. From The Face You Deserve through Our Beloved Month of August and the much-loved Tabu, he keeps blurring fiction and documentary in ways that reward patience. Arabian Nights felt almost absurdly ambitious, and the 2024 Best Director prize at Cannes for Grand Tour confirmed what cinephiles had already sensed for years. What strikes me is that he trained in Lisbon and built a body of work that travels far beyond Portugal without ever shedding its specific, melancholic Portuguese texture. I'd call him a filmmaker's filmmaker.
Overview
Miguel Gomes (born 1972) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and editor. He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School. His films include The Face You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012), Arabian Nights (2015) and Grand Tour (2024). For the last, he won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Miguel Gomes
- Name (Japanese)
- ミゲル・ゴメス
- Reading
- みげる・ごめす
- Born
- January 1, 1972 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rat
- Origin
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / film editor / screenwriter / actor / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2024 Cannes Best Director Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.