b. 1963 · Mexico City, Mexico
Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards, Special Achievement Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Directors Guild of America Awards. His most notable films include Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). Amores Perros (2000), and Biutiful (2010) each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams(2003) and Babel (2006). For Birdman (2014), he won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The following year, he was awarded Best Director for The Revenant (2015), making him the third director to win back-to-back after John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Iñárritu was later awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (2017). Iñárritu became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the Academy Awards' history and the first to win for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. He was the first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at Cannes, and the first to win a DGA Award for Outstanding Directing. In 2019, Iñárritu became the first Latin American to serve as jury president for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Iñárritu and Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are known in the film industry as "The Three Amigos." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born 15 Aug 1963
Digger
2026
Director
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
Director
The Revenant
2015
Director
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Director
Biutiful
2010
Director
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
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Babel
2006
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21 Grams
2003
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September 11
2002
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The Hire
2001
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Amores Perros
2000
Director
Behind the Money
1996
Director
Digger
2026
Writer · Story · Screenplay
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
Writer
The Revenant
2015
Screenplay
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Writer
Biutiful
2010
Writer · Story
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Writer
September 11
2002
Writer
The Hire
2001
Writer
Behind the Money
1996
Writer
The Marked Hour
1988
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