Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015) was a Portuguese director whose career across more than eighty years made him one of the longest-active filmmakers in the history of cinema. He began as a sportsman and actor in late-1920s Porto and made his first short, Douro, Faina Fluvial, in 1931. After decades of intermittent activity under the Salazar dictatorship, he became enormously prolific in his later years, directing dozens of features into his hundreds. His acclaimed films include Aniki Bóbó, Past and Present, Doomed Love, Francisca, The Convent, Inquietude, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, I'm Going Home, and Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.