Joaquim Leitão

Joaquim Leitão, ComIH, OM (born 1956) is a Portuguese film director.

He won two Golden Globe Awards, in 1996 for Adão e Eva and in 1998 for Tentação.

In 1994 he wrote Uma Cidade Qualquer for the European Capital of Culture.

With Tentação (Temptation) (1997) he got one of the biggest commercial successes of the Portuguese cinema, and then, he directed Inferno (Hell) (1999), the series Until Tomorrow Comrades (2005) - adapted from the work of the same name by Álvaro Cunhal - and 20,13 Purgatório (Purgatory) (2006).

He was awarded the Commander of the Order of Prince Henry, by the President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio in 2005.