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Alejandro González Iñárritu

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn August 15, 1963 (61 years)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (American Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo gonˈsales iˈɲaritu]; credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, for Babel (2007).

Iñárritu's six feature films—Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006) (comprising the "Death Trilogy"), Biutiful (2010), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), and The Revenant (2015)—have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including Academy Award nominations and wins. In 2015, Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture for Birdman. The following year, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Revenant, making him the third director to win back to back Academy Awards, and the first since 1950.

He is friends with fellow Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Cinema."

Known For

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • The Revenant
  • Babel
  • Amores Perros
  • 21 Grams
  • Biutiful
  • Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • September 11
  • Nine Lives
  • Powder Keg
  • Mother and Child
  • Rudo y Cursi
  • To Each His Own Cinema
  • The Marked Hour
  • Los Ojos del Mar

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    Filmography

    2026
    2022
    2021
    Shake Your Cares Away · as Executive Producer
    2017
    Los Ojos del Mar · as Executive Producer
    2015
    2014
    2012
    The Last Elvis · as Associate Producer
    2010
    2009
    Mother and Child · as Executive Producer
    2008
    2006
    2005
    Toro negro · as Executive Producer
    2005
    Nine Lives · as Executive Producer
    2003
    2002
    2000
    1995

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