Alejandro González Iñárritu
Born: 1963-08-15 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico [now Mexico City, Mexico]
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- Judy ... (Director)
2025
- Frankenstein ... (Thanks)
- Memoria de Los Olvidados as Self
2024
- Disclaimer ... (Thanks)
2023
2022
- BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths ... (Writer)
2021
- Shake Your Cares Away ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Perros, amores, accidentes as Self (archive footage)
2018
- The Gaze of the Sea ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- The Shape of Water ... (Thanks)
- Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
- Flesh and Sand ... (Director)
2016
- Before the Flood as Self
- A World Unseen: 'The Revenant' as Self
2015
- The Revenant ... (Director)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) as Self
2014
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) ... (Director)
2013
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Gravity ... (Thanks)
- Gold as Self
2012
- Finding Your Roots as Self
- The Last Elvis ... (Associate Producer)
- Bergman's Video as Self - Filmmaker
- Naran Ja ... (Director)
2011
- Kurosawa's Way as Self
- Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes as Self
2010
- Biutiful ... (Director)
2009
- Mother and Child ... (Executive Producer)
2008
- Rudo & Cursi ... (Producer)
2007
- To Each His Own Cinema ... (Director)
- Sexo en el plató as Himself
- Cannes: All Access as Self
- Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- Year of the Nail ... (Thanks)
2006
- Pan's Labyrinth ... (Thanks)
- Babel ... (Producer)
- Toro Negro ... (Executive Producer)
2005
- Nine Lives ... (Executive Producer)
- G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
2004
- 21 Grams: In Fragments as Self
2003
- 21 Grams ... (Producer)
2002
- September 11 ... (Director)
2001
- Y Tu Mamá También ... (Thanks)
- The Hire ... (Writer)
- Powder Keg ... (Director)
2000
- Amores Perros ... (Editor)
1996
- The Ringer ... (Writer)
1995
- Detras del dinero ... (Director)
1989
- Garra de tigre ... (Music)
1988
- The Marked Hour ... (Director)
1987
- Fiera solitaria ... (Original Music Composer)