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{{Short description|Spanish film director (born 1972)}}
{{for multi|the conquistador|Mateo Gil (conquistador)|the baseball player|Mateo Gil (baseball)}}
{{family name hatnote|Gil|Rodríguez|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mateo Gil
| image = 
| image_size = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|9|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Las Palmas]], [[Spain]]
| nationality   = [[Spain|Spanish]]
| birth_name = Mateo Gil Rodríguez
| spouse = Andrea Antezana 
| occupation  = [[Film director]], [[screenwriter]], [[Second unit|second unit director]], [[assistant director]], [[cinematographer]], [[Film editing|editor]], [[Film producer|producer]]
| years_active = 1992 – present
}}
'''Mateo Gil Rodríguez''' (born 23 September 1972, [[Las Palmas]], [[Spain]]) is a Spanish [[film director]],<ref name=NYT>{{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 (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|date=2016|archive-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> [[screenwriter]],<ref name=NYT/> [[Second unit|second unit director]],<ref name=NYT/> [[assistant director]],<ref name=NYT/> [[cinematographer]],<ref name=NYT/> [[Film editing|editor]] and [[Film producer|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 Award]]s including [[Goya Award for Best New Director|Best New Director]] and [[Goya Award for Best Director|Best Director]], and won four: [[Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] for ''The Sea Inside'' and ''[[Agora (film)|Agora]]'', [[Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] for ''[[The Method (2005 film)|The Method]]'' and Best Short Film - Fiction for ''Dime que yo''.

== Filmography ==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
!  | Title
! [[Film director|Director]]
! [[Film writer|Writer]]
! [[Second unit]]/<br />[[assistant director]]
! Notes
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Tesis]]''
| {{no}}
| {{partial|Story}}
| {{yes}}
| Also video operator
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
| ''[[Nobody Knows Anybody]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| Also actor as Boy in the bar #2<br />(uncredited)
|-
| ''[[Butterfly's Tongue|La lengua de las mariposas]]''
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[The Sea Inside]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[The Method (2005 film)|The Method]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Agora (film)|Agora]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
|2011
| ''[[Blackthorn (film)|Blackthorn]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Realive]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 2018
| ''[[The Laws of Thermodynamics]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Pedro Páramo (2024 film)|Pedro Páramo]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|}

===Short film===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
!  | Title
! [[Film director|Director]]
! [[Film writer|Writer]]
! [[Second unit]]/<br />[[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}}
| 
|-
|}
===Television===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
!  | Title
! [[Film director|Director]]
! [[Film writer|Writer]]
! [[Film Producer|Executive producer]]
! Notes
|-
| 2006
| ''Películas para no dormir: Regreso a Moira''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| TV film<br/>Also editor
|-
| 2020
| ''[[The Minions of Midas|Los Favoritos De Midas]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Limited series<br/>Also creator
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0317834|name=Mateo Gil}}

{{Mateo Gil}}
{{Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay}}
{{Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay}}
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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Spanish male screenwriters]]
[[Category:Spanish film producers]]
[[Category:Spanish film directors]]
[[Category:Spanish television directors]]
[[Category:Film directors from the Canary Islands]]
[[Category:People from Las Palmas]]


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