Alejandro González Iñárritu

Born: 1963-08-15

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.


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Before the Flood

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Released: 2016-10-21

A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the...

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Trespassing Bergman

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Released: 2013-08-28

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island...

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Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

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Released: 2015-05-18

A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".

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A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'

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Released: 2016-01-21

A new documentary directed by Eliot Rausch exploring the production of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's...

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Sexo en el plató

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Released: 2007-04-09

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters...

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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

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Released: 2007-09-30

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational...

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Plankton Salesmen

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Released: 2017-10-29

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in...

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Perros, amores, accidentes

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Released: 2020-12-15

A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.

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21 Grams: In Fragments

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Released: 2004-03-16

A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

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Cannes: All Access

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Released: 2007-10-27

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the...

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Kurosawa's Way

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Released: 2011-05-13

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Gold

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Released: 2013-01-09

Documentary about the triumph of the Mexican National Team at the Olympic Games in London....

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Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

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Released: 2011-05-31

A behind-the-scenes documentary that combines recorded rehearsals and intimate moments with...

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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

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First aired: 2015-08-02

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of...

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Finding Your Roots

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First aired: 2012-03-24

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost...

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Bosé renacido

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First aired: 2023-09-05

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Bergman's Video

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First aired: 2012-08-22

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island...

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