Joaquim Leitão

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 with 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. He received the Golden Globe: Best Picture and Best Director, and with Tentação (Temptation) (1997), one of the biggest commercial successes of the Portuguese cinema. Then, he directed Inferno (Hell) (1999), the series...