Imanol Uribe (born 28 February 1950) is a Basque Spanish screenwriter and film director.

He won the Goya Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for the 1994 thriller Running Out of Time.

[2] After earning a licentiate degree in journalism, he joined the Escuela Oficial de Cine [es], leaving the latter with a reputation of politically combative filmmaker.

[3] From 1982 to 2004, he was married to María Barranco, whom with he has had one child in common.

[2][4] He has won the Goya Award for Best Director for Días contados as well as the San Sebastian Film Festival's Golden Shell for Bwana.