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Jaime de Armiñan is a prolífic artist, central to the Spanish popular culture of the last half century. To summarize its ample production is an impossible task, considering that his work encompasses writing and directing for theater, cinema and television, as well as publishing on the press, novels, memoirs, etc. At the end of the 50’s he won both of Spain’s most prestigious theater awards, the Lope de Vega and the Calderón de la Barca. Soon he began to write for television. He is amply recognised in Spain as a tv pioneer and his talent generated some of the most memorable creations of this media: from Historia de la Frivolidad, Tiempo y hora, Las doce caras de Juan, las doce Caras de Eva, Suspiros de España to Una gloria nacional or Juncal. They are fondly remembered and gathered a good number of prizes at Montreux, Monaco, and other specialised festivals. Three of his films won Oscar nominations (Mi querida Señorita, El nido y La hora bruja). These films, and later productions like El amor del capitán Brando, El otro lado del túnel, Stico… circulated widely trough the festival circuit and won prizes at Berlin, Montreal, etc.