Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Editor, Composer
August 15, 1963 (62 years)
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."
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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."
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Filmography
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| 2021 | Shake Your Cares Away · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Los Ojos del Mar · as Executive Producer |
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| 2012 | The Last Elvis · as Associate Producer |
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| 2009 | Mother and Child · as Executive Producer |
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| 2005 | Toro negro · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Nine Lives · as Executive Producer |
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| 2015 | The Revenant · as Screenplay |
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| 1989 | The Simpsons · as Alejandro González Iñárritu (voice) |
| 2025 | Memory of the Forgotten · as Self |
| 2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! · as Self |
| 2018 | The Oscars · as Self - Special Achievement Award |
| 2016 | Before the Flood · as Self |
| 2016 | The Oscars · as Self - Winner & Nominee |
| 2016 | 2016 EE British Academy Film Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2016 | 73rd Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2015 | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter · as Self |
| 2015 | The Oscars · as Self - Winner |
| 2015 | 72nd Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2013 | Trespassing Bergman · as Self |
| 2012 | Trespassing Bergman · as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots · as SelfOn Plex |
| 2011 | Kurosawa's Way · as Self |
| 2011 | 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards · as Self |
| 2007 | Bienvenue à Cannes · as Self |
| 2007 | Sexo en el plató · as Himself |
| 2007 | The 79th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2007 | La noche de los Oscar · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2007 | The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee & Accepting Award |
| 2006 | Cannes 2006: Crónica de Carlos Boyero · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ · as Self |
| 2004 | Els matins a TV3 · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2004 | The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! · as Self |
| 1995 | E! Live from the Red Carpet · as Self - After Party Guest |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose · as Self - Guest |
| 1984 | 30 minuts · as Self |
| 1971 | Film · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2022 | Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Garra de tigre · as Composer |
| 1988 | Furia en la sangre · as Composer |
| 1987 | Un macho en el salón de belleza · as Composer |
| 1986 | Un macho en la cárcel de mujeres · as Composer |
| 2006 | Babel · as Idea |
| 1995 | Detrás del dinero · as Story |