Juan Antonio Bardem

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{{Short description|Spanish film director and screenwriter (1922–2002)}}

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| name = Juan Antonio Bardem

| image = (Juan Antonio Bardem) Spaanse verkiezingen Santiago Carrillo (PCE) presenteert kandidaten voor zijn …, Bestanddeelnr 929-2263 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Bardem in 1977

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| birth_name = Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|6|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|10|30|1922|6|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Madrid, Spain{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/juan-antonio-bardem-1117875338/|title = Juan Antonio Bardem|date = November 2002}}

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1951–1997

| spouse = María Aguado Barbado

| children = 4, including Miguel

| parents = {{ubl|Rafael Bardem|Matilde Muñoz Sampedro}}

| relatives = Pilar Bardem (sister)

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Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and El puente (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1977 |title=10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977) |access-date=20 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194935/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1977 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }} His 1979 film Seven Days in January won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |access-date=20 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archive-date= 3 April 2014 }}

In 1953, he and Luis García Berlanga founded a film magazine, Objetivo, which existed until 1956.{{cite book|author=Virginia Higginbotham|title=Spanish Film Under Franco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4K2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT25|access-date=4 February 2017|date=27 January 2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-76147-6|page=25}} He was a member of the Communist Party.{{cite book|author=Marvin D'Lugo|title=The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing|url=https://archive.org/details/filmsofcarlossau0000dlug|url-access=registration|access-date=4 February 2017|year=1991|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-00855-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/filmsofcarlossau0000dlug/page/20 20]}}

During the Franco dictatorship, Bardem was imprisoned by the Spanish State due to the anti-fascist nature of his films.{{cite web |last1=Turner |first1=Christopher |title='I always fight directors' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/feb/09/baftas2008.baftasfilm |website=The Guardian |access-date=18 September 2023 |date=9 February 2008}}

In 1981, he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |title=12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981) |access-date=21 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050907/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |archive-date=21 April 2013 }} In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1993/04_jury_1993/04_Jury_1993.html |title=Berlinale: 1993 Juries |access-date=29 May 2011|work=berlinale.de}} Bardem was the father of director Miguel Bardem and uncle of actor Javier Bardem. Bardem died in Madrid in 2002, at age 80.