Alejandro G. Iñárritu — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

Alejandro González Iñárritu (born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker, primarily known for making psychological drama films about the human condition. His films Amores Perros (2000) and Biutiful (2010) each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and be earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006). For Birdman (2014), he personally won three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay). The following year he again won 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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Interesting facts

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Became the first director to win the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award two years in a row.
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The first Mexican director to win the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Babel (2006)
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In 1984 he began his career as a disc jockey at the popular Mexican rock radio station WFM, where he soon became a producer of music programs.
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After making a commercial for BMW and taking part in the international project 11'09"01 September 11, Iñárritu made a new film, 21 Grams — a stylistic continuation of Love's a Bitch, starring Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts.
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In 1987, Iñárritu directed the television show Magia Gigital.
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From 1988 to 1990, he produced six feature-length fiction films.
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Alejandro's feature debut, written by Guillermo Arriaga, Amores Perros, brought the director nominations at prestigious film festivals and international fame.
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Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel form Iñárritu's trilogy about death.
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He was the youngest child in a family of seven siblings.
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In his films, the director often uses scenes of animals dying.
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According to Iñárritu, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship between the ages of 17 and 19 played a major role in his later career as a director.
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In 2006, the director made the drama Babel, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Gael García Bernal. The film won a Golden Globe for Best Drama Film of 2006.
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The director has repeatedly stated in interviews that one of his idols in cinema is A. Tarkovsky. "I remember the first time I saw a Tarkovsky film – I was shocked. I didn't know what to do next. I was fascinated by his cinema because I suddenly realized that a film could contain such a number of meanings that I could not have even imagined before" - Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Every feature film by Alejandro González Iñárritu has at least one Oscar nomination.
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In 1990, Alejandro was appointed artistic director of Mexico's largest television company, Televisa, and in 1991 he founded the production company Zeta Film.