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Alejandro Amenábar
Writer, Director, Composer, Producer, Editor, ActorBorn March 31, 1972 (53 years)
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas.
Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express.
Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas.
Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express.
Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.
Alejandro Amenábar Filmography
| 2025 | The Captive · as Screenplay |
| 2021 | La Fortuna (TV Series) |
| 2019 | While at War · as Screenplay |
| 2017 | |
| 2015 | Regression · as Screenplay |
| 2015 | Vale · as Screenplay |
| 2009 | |
| 2004 | The Sea Inside · as Screenplay |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky · as Original Film Writer |
| 2001 | |
| 1997 | Open Your Eyes · as Screenplay |
| 1996 | Thesis · as Screenplay |
| 1992 |
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| 2021 | La Fortuna (TV Series) |
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| 1992 |
| 2025 | The Captive · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | While at War · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Un viaje mar adentro · as Composer |
| 2004 | The Sea Inside · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | The Others · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Nobody Knows Anybody · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | |
| 1997 | Open Your Eyes · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Thesis · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Himenóptero · as Original Music Composer |
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| 2004 | |
| 1996 | Thesis · as Associate Producer |
| 2004 | |
| 1992 |
| 2009 | Spanish Movie · as Reflejo Espejo |
| 2006 | Spectre · as Man Looking At Statue (uncredited) |
| 1999 | |
| 1997 | Open Your Eyes · as Laughing Guy In Disco Bathroom |
| 1992 | Himenóptero · as Bosco |
| 2024 | The Revolt (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2023 | LateXou (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2022 | Penélope Cruz, les reflets de la passion · as Self |
| 2021 | Drag Race Spain (TV Series) · as Self - Video Message |
| 2020 | Los Felices Veinte (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2017 | Quan arribin els marcians (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2016 | 90 Minuti (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2015 | Historia de Nuestro Cine (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | |
| 2011 | Alaska & Mario (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo · as Self |
| 2007 | Page 2 (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | El Hormiguero 3.0 (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | XX premios Goya · as Self - Presenter |
| 2005 | The 77th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2005 | The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2005 | Un viaje mar adentro · as Self |
| 2005 | The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 · as Self - Winner |
| 2005 | Buenafuente (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2004 | The 2004 European Film Awards · as Self |
| 2004 | Kulturplatz (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | APM? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Aquí hay tomate (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Silenci? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Whoever That Fails (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Cartelera (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 1973 | Informe Semanal (TV Series) · as Self |