Miguel Gomes

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.

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Name (English)

Miguel Gomes

Name (Japanese)

ミゲル・ゴメス

Reading

みげる・ごめす

Born

1972

Origin

Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation

film director / film editor / screenwriter / actor / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Rat

Awards & achievements

• 2024 Cannes Best Director Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Gomes%20(director)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1890376

Tags

• Lisbon
• film director
• film editor
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.