---
name: "Luis Puenzo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luis-puenzo"
fi1m_id: "luis-puenzo"
imdb_id: "nm0699933"
tmdb_id: 69315
wikidata_id: "Q611429"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "19 February 1946"
died: "21 April 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T01:18:39.434529+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Luis Puenzo

## Identity

Luis Puenzo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luis-puenzo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luis-puenzo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0699933
- **TMDB ID:** 69315
- **Wikidata ID:** Q611429
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Puenzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611429, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699933/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69315

Producer and director. Born 19 February 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died 21 April 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 19 February 1946, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **Died:** 21 April 2026
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Puenzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611429, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699933/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69315

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Official Story*](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Luis Puenzo is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Buenos Aires in 1946, he began his career in advertising in the 1960s and directed his first feature, *Luces de mis zapatos*, in 1973.

Puenzo is best known for *The Official Story* (1985; also known as *La historia oficial*), which he directed, co-wrote with Aída Bortnik and produced. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first for an Argentine production. He later directed *Old Gringo* (1989) in the United States.

Puenzo served as president of Argentina's INCAA from 2019 to 2022. He is the father of screenwriter and director Lucía Puenzo.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Official Story* (1985), Fi1m 81, Producer, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *El cine a través de la música* (2019), Actor
- *The Unseen* (2017), Writer
- *Spider Thieves* (2017), Producer
- *Clandestine Childhood* (2012), Producer
- *The Fish Child* (2009), Producer
- *XXY* (2007), Producer
- *Directed by...* (2005), Actor
- *The Whore and the Whale* (2004), Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
- *Broken Silence* (2002), series, Director
- *Historias Breves II: Aluap* (1997), Thanks
- *Malajunta* (1996), Actor
- *Wild Tango* (1993), Thanks
- *The Plague* (1992), Director, Screenplay
- *Old Gringo* (1989), Director, Screenplay
- *The Official Story* (1985), Director, Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md)
- *Las sorpresas* (1975), Director, Writer
- *Luces de mis zapatos* (1973), Director, Writer
- *La Difunta Correa* (1966), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Luis Puenzo at the celebration of Film Director's Day. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 July 2016. Picture by Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nacion](https://film.one/media/person/3924828/gallery-81668dd77eaf.jpg) Luis Puenzo at the celebration of Film Director's Day. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 July 2016. Picture by Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nacion — Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Luis_Puenzo_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Luis_Puenzo_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Luis Puenzo at the celebration of Film Director's Day. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 July 2016. Picture by Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nacion](https://film.one/media/person/3924828/gallery-c6378cfa7ab4.jpg) Luis Puenzo at the celebration of Film Director's Day. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 July 2016. Picture by Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nacion — Romina Santarellli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Luis_Puenzo.jpg/1280px-Luis_Puenzo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Fernando Madedo y Luis Puenzo (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/3924828/gallery-9696eb6b89cf.jpg) Fernando Madedo y Luis Puenzo (2019) — Madedo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Fernando_Madedo_y_Luis_Puenzo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Director Luis Puenzo and actress Norma Aleandro celebrating the Oscar won by The Official Story, best foreign film. (1986)](https://film.one/media/person/3924828/gallery-804fc43b83fc.jpg) Director Luis Puenzo and actress Norma Aleandro celebrating the Oscar won by The Official Story, best foreign film. (1986) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Puenzo_aleandro_premio_oscar.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Luis Puenzo](https://film.one/media/person/3924828/gallery-ec86c3179d81.jpg) Luis Puenzo — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1986: Academy Awards (won)
- 1986: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Official Story*

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 1986: Golden Globe Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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