Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Directing
- August 15, 1963 · Mexico City, Mexico
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Digger · Producer, Director
- Each Day in a Moment: 2025 · Self
- Frankenstein · Thanks
- Sueño Perro · Director
- Memoria de Los Olvidados · Self
- Disclaimer · Thanks
- Bosé renacido
- BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths · Writer, Editing
- Shake Your Cares Away · Executive producer
- Perros, amores, accidentes · Self
- The Gaze of the Sea · Executive producer
- The Shape of Water · Thanks
- Plankton Salesmen · Self
- Flesh and Sand · Director, Writer
- Before the Flood · Self
- A World Unseen: 'The Revenant' · Self
- The Revenant · Director, Producer
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) · Self
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) · Director, Producer
- Gravity · Thanks
- Trespassing Bergman · Self
- Gold · Self
- Naran Ja · Director
- Bergman's Video · Self
- The Last Elvis · Associate Producer
- Finding Your Roots · Self
- Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes · Self, Director
- Kurosawa's Way · Self
- Biutiful · Director, Producer
- Mother and Child · Executive producer
- Rudo & Cursi · Producer
- To Each His Own Cinema · Director, Writer
- Cannes: All Access · Self
- Common Ground: Under Construction Notes · Self, Camera Operator
- Sexo en el plató · Self
- Year of the Nail · Thanks
- Babel · Director, Producer
- Pan's Labyrinth · Thanks
- Toro Negro · Executive producer
- Nine Lives · Executive producer
- G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten · Self
- 21 Grams: In Fragments · Self
- 21 Grams · Director, Producer
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- September 11 · Director, Producer
- Y Tu Mamá También · Thanks
- Powder Keg · Director, Editing
- The Hire · Writer, Director
- Amores Perros · Editing, Director
- Behind the Money · Director, Writer
- The Alarm · Director, Producer
- The Simpsons · Alejandro González Iñárritu (Voice)
- Garra de tigre · Music
- The Marked Hour · Director, Writer
- Furia en la sangre · Compositor
- Fiera solitaria · Music
- Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza · Compositor
- El Macho in a Women's Prison · Compositor
- Porto Rico · Executive producer