Joaquim Leitão, ComIH, OM (born 1956) is a Portuguese film director.
He won two Golden Globe Awards, in 1996 for Adão e Eva and in 1998
for Tentação.He studied law at the University of Lisbon, but changed
to directing films. In the 1980s he directed several short films and
music videos. In 1994 he wrote Uma Cidade Qualquer for the European
Capital of Culture. He followed this with Adão e Eva (1995), whose
cast included Joaquim de Almeida and Maria de Medeiros in the roles of
two commercial television media figures, and for which he received two
"Globos de Ouro" (Portuguese Golden Globes): Best Picture and Best
Director. With Tentação (Temptation) (1997) he got one of the
biggest commercial successes of the Portuguese cinema, and then, he
directed Inferno (Hell) (1999), the series Until Tomorrow Comrades
(2005) - adapted from the work of the same name by à lvaro Cunhal -
and 20,13 Purgatório (Purgatory) (2006).Joaquim Leitão also
participated in several films as an actor, notably in films by
Fernando Lopes, Ruy Guerra and António Pedro Vasconcelos. He was
awarded the Commander of the Order of Prince Henry, by the President
of the Republic Jorge Sampaio in 2005.
He won two Golden Globe Awards, in 1996 for Adão e Eva and in 1998
for Tentação.He studied law at the University of Lisbon, but changed
to directing films. In the 1980s he directed several short films and
music videos. In 1994 he wrote Uma Cidade Qualquer for the European
Capital of Culture. He followed this with Adão e Eva (1995), whose
cast included Joaquim de Almeida and Maria de Medeiros in the roles of
two commercial television media figures, and for which he received two
"Globos de Ouro" (Portuguese Golden Globes): Best Picture and Best
Director. With Tentação (Temptation) (1997) he got one of the
biggest commercial successes of the Portuguese cinema, and then, he
directed Inferno (Hell) (1999), the series Until Tomorrow Comrades
(2005) - adapted from the work of the same name by à lvaro Cunhal -
and 20,13 Purgatório (Purgatory) (2006).Joaquim Leitão also
participated in several films as an actor, notably in films by
Fernando Lopes, Ruy Guerra and António Pedro Vasconcelos. He was
awarded the Commander of the Order of Prince Henry, by the President
of the Republic Jorge Sampaio in 2005.
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