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Alejandro González Iñárritu

Date of birth: 1963-08-15

Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Known for: Directing

Also known as: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alejandro Innaritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

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.

Movie Credits

21 Grams: In Fragments
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21 Grams: In Fragments

2004-03-16

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

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes
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Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

2011-05-31

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

Kurosawa's Way
2.9

Kurosawa's Way

2011-05-13

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surpri

Perros, amores, accidentes
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Perros, amores, accidentes

2020-12-15

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

Before the Flood
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Before the Flood

2016-10-21

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

Sexo en el plató
2.9

Sexo en el plató

2007-04-09

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

A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
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A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'

2016-01-21

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

Trespassing Bergman
3.3

Trespassing Bergman

2013-08-28

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

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
3.6

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

2015-05-18

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

Cannes: All Access
1.9

Cannes: All Access

2007-10-27

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

Gold
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Gold

2013-01-09

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

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007-09-30

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

Memoria de Los Olvidados
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Memoria de Los Olvidados

2025-09-03

Javier Espada's documentary about the making of Bunuel's masterpiece "Los Olvidados".

Plankton Salesmen
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Plankton Salesmen

2017-10-29

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