Alejandro González Iñárritu
Birthdate: August 15, 1963 (63 Years Old)
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Alejandro González Iñárritu is one of the most acclaimed and successful filmmakers of his generation, a five-time Oscar winner, one of the three touted “Tres Amigos” (with Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro) of contemporary Mexican filmmaking who have made a significant mark in Hollywood (including multiple Best Picture Oscars), and who jumped from a career in radio, television production and commercials production to director/producer/co-editor of the acclaimed drama, Amores perros (2000), written by Guillermo Arriaga, co-starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Emilio Echevarria, Goya Toledo and Alvaro Guerrero, produced (in part) by Estudios Churubusco Azteca, premiering in competition in Cannes Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Grand Prize), and released by Lionsgate (U.S.)/Nu Vision (Mexico), winning the Best Picture Ariel (Mexican Oscar) and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and grossing a knockout $21 million (or ten times estimated costs). Iñárritu first was director/writer/producer of the segment, “Mexico,” in the anthology movie, 11’ 09” 01 September 11 (2002), and then he directed and produced his and regular screenwriter partner Guillermo Arriaga’s second movie in the so-called “Trilogy of Death,” the multi-story 21 Grams (2003), with the ensemble of Sean Penn (winner of the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival), Naomi Watts (nominated for the Best Actress Oscar), Benicio del Toro (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar), Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Clea DuVall and Eddie Marsan, and which grossed over $60 million (or three times estimated costs) for Focus Features after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Iñárritu directed and produced the globe-hopping “Trilogy of Death” finale, Babel (2006), written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Elle Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr. and Michael Pena, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival (where Iñárritu won the Best Director Palme) before receiving seven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Director), and earning over $135 million (or five times estimated costs) for lead producer and distributor Paramount Pictures (English-speaking territories, Spain and Latin America)/StudioCanal and Mars Distribution (France)/Summit Entertainment (rest of world).
Iñárritu directed and wrote the segment, “Anna,” for the anthology movie produced by the Cannes Film Festival, Chacun son cinema/To Each His Own Cinema (2007), was director/co-writer/producer of the drama, Biutiful (2010), co-written by Armando Bo and Nicolas Giacobone, starring Javier Bardem (who won the Best Actor Palme at the Cannes Film Festival and earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination, the first for an all-Spanish performance), and which lost money (based on estimated costs) for distributors Focus Features (U.S.)/Videocine (Mexico)/Universal Pictures (Spain) after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
Alejandro González Iñárritu won three Oscars (Picture, Director, Original Screenplay) as director/co-writer/producer of his (nearly) single-shot-filmed comedy-drama, Birdman (2014), co-written by Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo, starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts, premiering in competition at the Venice Film Festival and grossing over five times estimated costs with a $103 million return for Fox Searchlight Pictures and winning four Oscars. Iñárritu won his second consecutive Best Director Oscar (one of twelve Oscar nominations) as director/co-writer/producer of the film adaptation of Michael Punke’s 2002 Western novel, The Revenant (2015), co-written by Mark L. Smith, starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Oscar-winner for Best Actor), Oscar-nominated Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter, produced (in part) by Regency Enterprises and RatPac Entertainment and released by 20th Century Fox to $533.6 million global gross (over four times estimated costs).
Alejandro González Iñárritu returned as director/co-writer/producer/co-editor/co-composer to Mexican film production for the first time since Amores perros with his Mexico City-set surrealist comedy-drama, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022), co-written by Nicolas Giacobone, starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani, produced by M Producciones/Redrum, premiering at the Venice Film Festival and released theatrically and on streaming by Netflix. Iñárritu returned to Hollywood as director/co-writer/co-story writer/producer for his satire about power, Digger (2026), co-written by Alexander Dinelaris, Giacobone, Sabina Berman and Jez Butterworth, starring and produced (in part) by Tom Cruise, with Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons and Emma D’Arcy, and which was released wide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Iñárritu was producer only or took an executive or associate producer credit on several movies (largely Mexican-produced) which he did not direct or write, including: director/writer Rodrigo Garcia’s Nine Lives (2005); Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s and Carlos Armella’s documentary, Toro negro (2005); director/writer Carlos Cuaron’s Rudo y Cursi (2008); director/writer Garcia’s Mother and Child (2009); director/co-writer Armando Bo’s The Last Elvis (2012); director/writer Carlos Armelia’s En La Estancia/The Land of Silence (2014); director/co-writer/producer Jose Alvarez’s non-fiction Los Ojos del Mar (2017); director/co-writer Tom Shoval’s Shake Your Cares Away (2021); and director/co-writer/producer Residente’s Porto Rico (date to be announced), starring Edward Norton, Viggo Mortensen, Daniel Bruhl, Bad Bunny and Ruben Blades.
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Heritage: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s last name is of Basque origin, from his maternal grandfather, who was a justice on the Mexican Supreme Court.
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