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Alejandro González Iñárritu

Mexico City, MexicoBorn August 15, 1963

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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography18

Digger
A-

Digger

2026·4 grades
Sueño Perro

Sueño Perro

2025
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022
Flesh and Sand

Flesh and Sand

2017
The Revenant
A

The Revenant

2015·7 grades
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014·3 grades
Naran Ja

Naran Ja

2012
Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

2011
Biutiful

Biutiful

2010
Write the Future

Write the Future

2010
To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007
Babel
A-

Babel

2006·2 grades
21 Grams

21 Grams

2003
September 11

September 11

2002
Powder Keg

Powder Keg

2001
Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000
Detras del dinero

Detras del dinero

1996
The Ringer

The Ringer

1996