
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Known for department: Directing
Birthday: 1963-08-15
Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico
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.
Known for

21 Grams: In Fragments
2004Self
Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes
2011Self
Kurosawa's Way
2011Self
Perros, amores, accidentes
2020Self (archive footage)
Before the Flood
2016Self
Sexo en el plató
2007Himself
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
2016Self
Trespassing Bergman
2013Self
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
2015Self
Cannes: All Access
2007Self
Gold
2013Self
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007Self
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025Self