DIRECTOR
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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- #001
As of 2023, every one of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's feature films has received at least one Oscar nomination.
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He has directed ten Oscar-nominated performances: Michael Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Benicio Del Toro, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Emma Stone and Javier Bardem. DiCaprio won for his performance in The Revenant (2015).
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In his acceptance speech, Iñárritu said that working with Leonardo DiCaprio was the best experience of his life.
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He, Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are the only Mexicans to have won the Best Director Oscar. He was the first Mexican to be nominated. He is one of three directors to have won in consecutive years.
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He is the first Mexican citizen to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar.
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He worked as a DJ at the Mexican radio station WFM before becoming a director.
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He is among the elite directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted) for the same film. In 2015 he won all three for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). The others are Francis Ford Coppola, Leo McCarey, Billy Wilder, James L. Brooks, Peter Jackson and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
- #008
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship at the ages of 17 and 19 had a major influence on him as a filmmaker.
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As a musician, he composed the scores for six Mexican films in the late 1980s.
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Andrei Rublev (1966) is his favorite film of all time.
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He was thirty-seven years old when he shot his first feature film.
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In 2007, at the 79th Academy Awards, he was one of ten Mexican Oscar nominees. The others were Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Arriaga, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo Navarro, Emmanuel Lubezki, Eugenio Caballero, Alex Rodríguez and Fernando Cámara.
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He studied filmmaking under the Polish director Ludwik Margules.
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He is one of nine directors to have won the Golden Globe, Directors Guild, BAFTA and Oscar awards for the same film, achieving this with The Revenant (2015).
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He was the youngest of seven siblings.
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He has directed three films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Babel (2006), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015). Birdman won in the category.
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He became the first person to win the DGA Feature Film Award two years in a row, first with Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and then with The Revenant (2015).
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He is the first Mexican director to win the Best Director award ("Prix de la mise en scene") at the Cannes Film Festival (2006).
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He is the first non-white director to win the Best Director Oscar in consecutive years.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu was a member of the Official Competition jury at the 64th Venice International Film Festival in 2007.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu's children are Maria Eladia and Eliseo.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the father of Maria Eladia Gonzalez and Eliseo Gonzalez H., with María Eladia Hagerman.
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