Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano (born 6 May 1944) is a Spanish film critic, lecturer and filmmaker.

[5] He studied filmmaking at the EOC [es] for two years after graduating in law from the University of Madrid in 1968.

[4][6] He has been active as a film critic since 1966, writing for publications such as Pueblo [es], Diario 16, Fotogramas and Guía del Ocio de Madrid, and, from 1968 to 1981, as a lecturer on Film Theory and History of Contemporary Cinema at the University of Valladolid.

[2] Among other institutional and academic positions, he has helmed the ICAA (1986–1988), the ECAM (1994–2012), and, since 2022, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.

[1] He has had one daughter with her partner Fiorella Faltoyano: actress and acting teacher Clara Méndez-Leite.