José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 1947 – 4 February 2020) was a Spanish filmmaker. He is nationally recognised and considered to be amongst the greatest and most influential Spanish directors of all time,^[1] having made such critically successful and culturally significant films as El bosque animado (1987), Amanece, que no es poco (1989) and La lengua de las mariposas (1999). His films won four Goya Awards over the course of his career: Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for El bosque animado, and Best Adapted Screenplay for La lengua de las mariposas and Los girasoles ciegos (2008).