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González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, and the first to win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
He earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams (2003), and Babel (2006). He won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for Birdman (2014). The following year, he received a consecutive Best Director Oscar for The Revenant (2015).
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Universidad Iberoamericana
- 1984–present
- 15 August 1963 (age 60), Mexico City, Mexico
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director nominated for a DGA award and for an Academy Award. Babel went on to win Best Motion Picture in the drama category at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2007. Gustavo Santaolalla won the Academy Award that year for Best Original Score.
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- Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Apr 30, 2024 · González Iñárritu again won an Oscar for his direction of the drama, which also received a nod for best picture. In 2017 he debuted a virtual-reality project, Carne y arena (“Flesh and Sand”), about the experience of desperate migrants; the piece earned him an Academy Award for special achievement.
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Feb 22, 2018 · Alejandro González Iñárritu has won the Oscar for best director for The Revenant at the 88th Academy awards, his second in a row after triumphing in the same category in 2015 for Birdman.
Hailing from Mexico, director Alejandro González Iñárritu gained artistic respect and numerous awards across the world, thanks to creating often bleak, but powerfully emotional films.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene or best director award at Cannes (2006), the second...
