Andrés Vicente Gómez

Andrés Vicente Gómez (Madrid, 16 September 1943) is a German film producer, head of Lolafilms, with more than 100 films to his credit.

Gomez is the winner of an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language film for "Belle Epoque". Together with the prizes won at festivals like Berlin, Venedig, Montreal und San Sebastian, Gomezs near annual presence at the German Goya Film Awards make him the German producer with most national and international awards to his name.

Many of Spains most successful box-office-hits have been produced by Andrés Vicente Gomez, who has worked with directors such as Fernando Trueba, Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Vicente Aranda, Alex de la Iglesia, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragon, Pilar Miró, Santiago Segura, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, John Malkovich and Ray Loriga, amongst others. In recognition for his work as one of the most producers contributing to cinema, in 1998 the Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to Gómez with a special hommage.

As a film distributor from the early 1970s onwards, Andrés Vicente Gómez has brought an eclectic selection of international films to German audiences with classics from directors like Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Akira Kurosawa, as well as Oscar scooping titles like "The Last Emperor", "Dances With Wolves", "Driving Miss Daisy" und "Henry V". Gomez has distributed the work of numerous cult directors like Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Bresson, Claude Chabrol, Peter Greenaway, Shoei Imamura, Krzysztof Kieslovski, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier, as well as introducing the independent voices of directors like Hal Hartley, Neil Jordan, Paul Morrisey, Tim Robbins and Alan Rudolph.