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Alejandro G. Iñárritu

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Born August 15, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico18 films

Alejandro González Iñárritu (born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker, primarily known for making psychological drama films about the human condition. His films Amores Perros (2000) and Biutiful (2010) each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and be earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006). For Birdman (2014), he personally won three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay). The following year he again won 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).

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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."

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Amores Perros posterFirst watchAmores Perros20007.6A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.View film

Essential films

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The Revenant poster7.5The Revenant2015Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) poster7.4Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Babel poster7.2Babel200621 Grams poster7.321 Grams2003Biutiful poster7.2Biutiful2010BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths poster6.8BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths2022To Each His Own Cinema poster6.5To Each His Own Cinema2007Powder Keg poster6.9Powder Keg2001

Filmography

18 films as director
  1. 2026DiggerDirector
  2. 2025Sueño PerroDirector
  3. 2022BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of TruthsDirector
  4. 2017Flesh and SandDirector
  5. 2015The RevenantDirector
  6. 2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Director
  7. 2012Naran JaDirector
  8. 2011Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip NotesDirector
  9. 2010BiutifulDirector
  10. 2010Write the FutureDirector
  11. 2007To Each His Own CinemaDirector
  12. 2006BabelDirector
  13. 200321 GramsDirector
  14. 2002September 11Director
  15. 2001Powder KegDirector
  16. 2000Amores PerrosDirector
  17. 1996Behind the MoneyDirector
  18. 1996The AlarmDirector