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Alejandro Amenábar

Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Actor, Composer, Additional CreditsBorn March 31, 1972 (52 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.
Known For
  • The Others
  • The Sea Inside
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Open Your Eyes
  • Agora
  • Thesis
  • Regression
  • While at War
  • For the Good of Others
  • La Fortuna
  • Himenóptero
  • Danielle

Filmography

2025
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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