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Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Born: 1963-08-15 • Mexico City, Mexico

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."

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Filmography
Memoria de Los Olvidados poster
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025 • Self
Perros, amores, accidentes poster
Perros, amores, accidentes
2020 • Self (archive footage)
Plankton Salesmen poster
Plankton Salesmen
2017 • Self (archive footage)
Before the Flood poster
Before the Flood
2016 • Self
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant' poster
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
2016 • Self
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) poster
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
2015 • Self
Trespassing Bergman poster
Trespassing Bergman
2013 • Self
Gold poster
Gold
2013 • Self
Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes poster
Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes
2011 • Self
Kurosawa's Way poster
Kurosawa's Way
2011 • Self
Cannes: All Access poster
Cannes: All Access
2007 • Self
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes poster
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007 • Self
Sexo en el plató poster
Sexo en el plató
2007 • Himself
21 Grams: In Fragments poster
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004 • Self