Mateo Gil

{{Short description|Spanish film director (born 1972)}}

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| name = Mateo Gil

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|9|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Las Palmas, Spain

| nationality = Spanish

| birth_name = Mateo Gil Rodríguez

| spouse = Andrea Antezana

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, second unit director, assistant director, cinematographer, editor, producer

| years_active = 1992 – present

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Mateo Gil Rodríguez (born 23 September 1972, Las Palmas, Spain) is a Spanish film director,{{cite web|title=Mateo Gil|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/235114/Mateo-Gil/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309225159/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/235114/Mateo-Gil/filmography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2016|archive-date=2016-03-09}} screenwriter, second unit director, assistant director, cinematographer, editor and producer.

He co-wrote most of Alejandro Amenábar's films with him, and also served as second unit or assistant director in two of this films. Amenábar's The Sea Inside, which Gil co-wrote, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was nominated for seven Goya Awards including Best New Director and Best Director, and won four: Best Original Screenplay for The Sea Inside and Agora, Best Adapted Screenplay for The Method and Best Short Film - Fiction for Dime que yo.