Mateo Gil

Mateo Gil Rodríguez (born 23 September 1972, Las Palmas, Spain) is a Spanish film director, 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 his 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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Second unit/ assistant director	Notes
1996	Tesis	No	Story	Yes	Also video operator
1997	Open Your Eyes	No	Yes	Yes
1999	Nobody Knows Anybody	Yes	Yes	No	Also actor as Boy in the bar #2 (uncredited)
La lengua de las mariposas	No	No	Yes
2004	The Sea Inside	No	Yes	No
2005	The Method	No	Yes	No
2009	Agora	No	Yes	Yes
2011	Blackthorn	Yes	No	No
2016	Realive	Yes	Yes	No
2018	The Laws of Thermodynamics	Yes	Yes	No
2024	Pedro Páramo	No	Yes	No

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Second unit/ assistant director	Other	Notes
1992	Himenóptero	No	No	No	Yes	Cinematographer
1993	Antes del beso	Yes	No	No	No
1994	Soñé que te mataba	Yes	No	No	No
1995	Luna	No	No	No	Yes	Voice actor as Hitchhicker
1998	Allanamiento de morada	Yes	Yes	No	No
2008	Dime que yo	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Also producer
2011	Hombre con nube	No	No	Yes	No

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive producer	Notes
2006	Películas para no dormir: Regreso a Moira	Yes	Yes	No	TV film Also editor
2020	The Minions of Midas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited series Also creator