Alejandro González Iñárritu
{{Short description|Mexican filmmaker (b.1963)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Alejandro González Iñárritu
| image = Alejandro González Iñárritu 276.jpg
| caption = Iñárritu at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|08|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| othername = Alejandro G. Iñárritu
| alma_mater = Universidad Iberoamericana
| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|producer|screenwriter|editor|composer}}
| yearsactive = 1984–present
| spouse = Maria Eladia Hagerman
| children = 2
| awards = Full list
| honours = Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2019)
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Alejandro González Iñárritu{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ɪ|ˈ|n|j|ɑːr|ɪ|t|uː}}; American Spanish: {{IPA|es|aleˈxandɾo ɣonˈsales iˈɲaritu|}}; credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu}} (born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His most notable films include Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards.
In 2006, Iñárritu became the first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Eight years later, he became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the history of the Academy Awards, as well as the first to win for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. In 2019, Iñárritu served as the first Latin American president of the jury for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
In 2015, Iñárritu was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman (2014) and a year later received the same award for The Revenant (2015), making him the third director to win the award back-to-back, following in the footsteps of John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. To date, he is the only director in history to have won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directing two years in a row.
Iñárritu was later awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (2017), the first ever VR installation to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
Early life
Iñárritu was born on 15 August 1963 in Mexico City, the youngest of seven siblings, to Luz María Iñárritu and Héctor González Gama.{{cite web|author=Agencias / El Siglo De Torreón |url=http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/1026907.1963-el-mundo-recibe-a-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-internacional-cineasta-mexicano.html |title=1963: El mundo recibe a Alejandro González Iñárritu, internacional cineasta mexicano |publisher=El Siglo De Torreón |date=15 August 2014 |accessdate=24 February 2015}}{{cite news |author=Agencia Reforma |date=22 February 2015 |title=Oscar 2015: El vuelo de Alejandro González Iñárritu con Birdman |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/hoy/ct-hoy-8434234-oscar-2015-el-vuelo-de-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-con-birdman-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=25 January 2020}}{{cite news |last=Hirschberg |first=Lynn |date=18 March 2001 |title=A New Mexican |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/magazine/a-new-mexican.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=25 January 2020}} His maternal grandfather, Alfredo Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar, was a prominent lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico with partial Basque origins. The surname Iñárritu is of Basque origin.Stated on Finding Your Roots, April 2, 2019 Héctor was a banker who owned a ranch, but went bankrupt when Iñárritu was five.{{cite news |last=Bahiana |first=Ana Maria |date=7 January 2016 |title=Alejandro González Iñárritu |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu |newspaper=Golden Globe Awards |accessdate=25 January 2020}} A poor student, Iñárritu was expelled from high school at the age of 16 or 17 due to poor grades and misbehavior.{{cite news|last1=Romney|first1=Jonathan|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/03/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-interview-the-revenant|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=28 June 2017}} He briefly ran off with a girl from a wealthy family to Acapulco, having been influenced by the Miloš Forman film Hair, but returned to Mexico City after a week.
Soon after, Iñárritu left home and worked as a sailor on cargo boats, taking two trips at the ages of 16 and 18, sailing through the Mississippi River and then visiting Europe and Africa. With $1,000 supplied by his father, Iñárritu stayed in Europe for a year on the second trip.{{cite web|url=http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a30854/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-interview-0115/|title=Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu: What I've Learned|work=Esquire|date=12 January 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-13845|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu|author=Tobias, Scott|work=The A.V. Club|date=3 December 2003|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Around this time, Iñárritu had the opportunity to watch the Palme d'Or-winning film Yol by world-famous Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney.{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-16 |date=2020-11-20 |first=Akın Kemal |last=Memişoğlu |publisher=Medium |title=Iñárritu ve İlham Kaynağı "Yol" |url=https://anaskvit.medium.com/i%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu-ve-i%CC%87lham-kayna%C4%9F%C4%B1-yol-f0253e437bc1}} Iñárritu was very impressed by Yol and later said in interviews that this film was the reason he turned to cinema. According to some Turkish journalists, the scene in The Revenant (2015) where Leonardo DiCaprio enters the belly of a dying horse was a reference to Yılmaz Güney and his film Yol, because there was a similar scene in that film.{{cite web|date=17 February 2016 |language=tr |publisher=Oda TV |title=Oscar adayı filmde Yılmaz Güney izleri |url=https://www.odatv.com/kultur-sanat/oscar-adayi-filmde-yilmaz-guney-izleri-89737}}{{cite web|date=5 March 2016 |first=Cüneyt |language=tr |last=Cebenoyan |publisher=BirGün |title=2016 Oscar'lar: Mustang, Revenant, Spotlight ve Siyah sorunu üzerine |url=https://www.birgun.net/makale/2016-oscar-lar-mustang-revenant-spotlight-ve-siyah-sorunu-uzerine-105518}}
He has noted that these early travels as a young man have had a great influence on him as a filmmaker, and the settings of his films have often been in the places he visited during this period. After his travels, Iñárritu returned to Mexico City and majored in communications at Universidad Iberoamericana.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1269648/Alejandro-Gonzalez-Inarritu|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
Career
= 1984–1999: Early career =
Iñárritu began his career in 1984 as a radio host at the Mexican radio station WFM, the country's most popular rock music station, where he "pieced together playlists into a loose narrative arc". He worked with and interviewed artists like Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Elton John, Bob Geldof and Carlos Santana. He also wrote and broadcast small audio stories and storytelling promos. He later became the youngest producer for Televisa, the largest mass media company in Latin America. From 1987 to 1989, he composed music for six Mexican feature films. During this time, Iñárritu became acquainted with Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga, beginning their screenwriting collaborations. Iñárritu has stated that he believes music has had a bigger influence on him as an artist than film itself. In the early 1990s, Iñárritu created Z Films, a production company, with Raúl Olvera in Mexico.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinepremiere.com.mx/41483-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-y-sus-emblematicos-3-oscares.html|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu y sus emblemáticos 3 Premios Oscar|date=26 February 2015|publisher=CinePremiere.com.mx|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Under Z Films, he started writing, producing and directing short films and advertisements. Making the final transition into TV and film directing, he studied under well-known theater director Ludwik Margules, as well as Judith Weston in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/universal/es/premios-oscar-para-gonzalez-inarritu-birdman-fue-un-gran-riesgo.html|title='Birdman' y la dualidad que todos tenemos|work=The New York Times|date=21 February 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.judithweston.com/|title=JUDITH WESTON STUDIO FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS|publisher=Judithweston.com|accessdate=8 March 2015}} In 1995, Iñárritu wrote and directed his first TV pilot for Z Films, called Detrás del dinero, or Behind the Money, starring Miguel Bosé.
= 2000–2009: Directorial debut and breakthrough =
File:Iñárritu and Blanchet.png on the set of Babel]]
In 2000, Iñárritu directed his first feature film Amores perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga. Amores perros explored Mexican society in Mexico City told via three intertwining stories. In 2000, Amores perros premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/festivals/cannes-prospects-foxcatcher-inarritus-birdman-likely-headed-to-the-croisette-1201147926/|title=Cannes Prospects: 'Foxcatcher,' Inarritu's 'Birdman' Likely Headed to the Croisette|work=Variety|date=26 March 2014|accessdate=21 October 2015}} It was the film debut of actor Gael García Bernal, who would later appear in Babel and the Iñárritu-produced Mexican film Rudo y Cursi. Amores perros was
the first installment in Iñárritu's and Arriaga's thematic "Death trilogy", and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2001|title=THE 73RD ACADEMY AWARDS - 2001|date=5 October 2014 |publisher=Oscars.org|accessdate=19 March 2015}}{{Cite web |url=http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/60/99 |title=The Significance Of The Queer And The Dog In Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2000): A Masculinity At War |access-date=14 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912182121/http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/60/99 |archive-date=12 September 2018 |url-status=dead }} In 2002, Iñárritu directed "Powder Keg", an episode for the BMW short film series The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the driver and Stellan Skarsgård as a war photographer. It won the Cannes Gold Lion Advertising Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.roastbrief.com.mx/2015/02/gonzalez-inarritu-el-director-publicista-nominado-al-oscar/|title=González Iñárritu, el director publicista GANADOR del Óscar|publisher=Roastbrief.com.mx|date=22 February 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
After the success of Amores Perros, Iñárritu and Arriaga revisited the intersected-stories structure of Amores perros in Iñárritu's second feature film, 21 Grams (2003). The film starred Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, where Penn received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor.{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-212151#profile|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu - Biography - Songwriter, Director, Television Producer|publisher=FYI|accessdate=8 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-09-08/news/0309090007_1_venice-film-festival-volpi-cup-fun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310111533/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-09-08/news/0309090007_1_venice-film-festival-volpi-cup-fun|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2015|title=Sean Penn wins Volpi Cup for best actor at Venice Film...|work=Chicago Tribune|date=8 September 2003}} At the 76th Academy Awards, Del Toro and Watts received nominations for their performances.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3433895.stm|title=Oscars 2004: The winners|work=BBC Online|date=1 March 2004|accessdate=8 March 2015}} From 2001 to 2011, Iñárritu directed several short films. In 2001, he directed an 11-minute film segment for 11'09"01 September 11 - which is composed of several short films that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from different points of view around the world. In 2007, he made ANNA, part of French anthology film Chacun son cinéma, which screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Chacun son cinéma, a collection of 33 short films by 35 renowned film directors representing 25 countries, was produced for the 60th anniversary of the film festival.{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/to-each-his-own-cinema-1200559186/#!|title=To Each His Own Cinema|magazine=Variety|date=20 May 2007|accessdate=8 August 2022}} In 2012, Iñárritu made the experimental short film Naran Ja: One Act Orange Dance, inspired by L.A Dance Project's premiere performance, featuring excerpts from the new choreography Benjamin Millepied crafted for Moving Parts. The story takes place in a secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-trash-humpers-esque-experimental-dance-short-film-naran-ja-directed-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-20121026|title=Watch: 'Trash Humpers'-Esque Experimental Dance Short Film 'Naran Ja' Directed By Alejandro González Iñárritu|work=Indiewire|date=26 October 2012|accessdate=8 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402211557/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-trash-humpers-esque-experimental-dance-short-film-naran-ja-directed-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-20121026|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
Iñárritu embarked on his third and last film that formed the "Death Trilogy", Babel (2006), written again by Arriaga.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-birdman-interview-1201292156/|title=Interview: 'Birdman' Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on His First Comedy |work=Variety|first=Scott|last=Foundas|date=27 August 2014 |accessdate=19 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/who-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-5-fast-facts-about-birdman-director-after-academy-1824974|title=Who Is Alejandro González Iñárritu? 5 Fast Facts About The 'Birdman' Director After Academy Award Win|work=International Business Times|date=23 February 2015|accessdate=27 October 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Babel (2006) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b181e2e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811132938/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b181e2e |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 August 2016 |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=BFI |language=en}} Babel comprises four interrelated stories set in Morocco, Mexico, the United States, and Japan, in four different languages.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/babel-2006|title=Babel Movie Review & Film Summary (2006)|publisher=Rogerebert.com|date=22 September 2007|accessdate=8 March 2015}} The film stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi and Kōji Yakusho. The rest of the cast comprised non-professional actors.{{cite web|url=http://www.psfilmfest.org/news/detail.aspx?NID=85&year=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014133201/http://www.psfilmfest.org/news/detail.aspx?NID=85&year=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2007 |title=Iñárritu's Babel To Be Honored By 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala |publisher=Palm Springs International Film Festival |date=30 November 2006 |accessdate=8 March 2015}} The film competed at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where Iñárritu received the Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène),{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-to-receive-sundance-institutes-vanguard-leaderhip-award-20150114|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu to Receive Sundance Institute's Vanguard Leadership Award|work=Indiewire|date=14 January 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}} becoming the first Mexican-born director to win the award.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-receive-sundance-763578|title=Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to Receive Sundance Institute's Vanguard Leadership Award|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=14 January 2015|accessdate=5 March 2015}} Babel was a critical and box office success. It received seven nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Gustavo Santaolalla, the film's composer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/biz/features/gustavo-santaolallas-music-studio-1200502208/|title=Film Composer Gustavo Santaolalla's Oscar-Worthy Music Studio|work=Variety|date=28 June 2013|accessdate=8 March 2015}} The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/babel-dreamgirls-take-top-golden-globe-awards-1.644611|title=Babel, Dreamgirls take top Golden Globe Awards|publisher=CBC.ca|date=15 January 2007|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Iñárritu became the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Directing and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing.{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu|first=Elvis|last=Mitchell|work=Interview|date=2014|accessdate=18 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BIRDMANs-Alejandro-Gonzalez-Inarritu-Wins-OSCAR-for-Best-Director-20150222|title=BIRDMAN's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Wins Oscar for Best Director|website=BroadwayWorld.com|date=22 February 2015|accessdate=27 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015001715/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BIRDMANs-Alejandro-Gonzalez-Inarritu-Wins-OSCAR-for-Best-Director-20150222|archive-date=15 October 2015|url-status=dead}} After this third feature film collaboration with writing partner Arriaga, Iñárritu and he professionally parted ways, following Iñárritu's barring of Arriaga from the set during filming. Arriaga told the Los Angeles Times in 2009, "It had to come to an end, but I still respect [González Iñárritu]."{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-20-ca-arriaga20-story.html |title=Guillermo Arriaga tells his story |last1=Whipp |first1= Glenn |work=Los Angeles Times|date=20 September 2009 }}
=2010–2019: Prominence and acclaim =
File:Biutiful Cannes 2010.jpg cast at Cannes Film Festival]]
In 2010, Iñárritu directed and produced Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem, written by Iñárritu, Armando Bó Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/movies/29biut.html|author= A.O. Scott|title=The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home|work=The New York Times|date=28 December 2010|accessdate=22 May 2015}} The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/cannes-premiere-javier-ba_b_578774.html|title=Cannes Premiere: Javier Bardem Stars in Alejandro Inarritu's Biutiful|work=The Huffington Post|date=19 May 2010|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Bardem went on to win Best Actor (shared with Elio Germano for La nostra vita) at Cannes.{{cite web|url=http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357327&CategoryId=13003|title=Javier Bardem Wins Best Actor Award at Cannes Film Festival|work=Latin American Herald Tribune|accessdate=8 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141756/http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357327&CategoryId=13003|url-status=dead}} Biutiful is Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish since his debut feature Amores perros. The film was nominated at the 2011 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film, and at the BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Actor.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2010/12/2011-golden-globe-nominations-announced-90609/|title=2011 Golden Globe Nominations Announced|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=14 December 2010|accessdate=8 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jan/18/baftas-nominations-full-list|title=Baftas nominations 2011: full list|work=The Guardian|date=18 January 2011|accessdate=8 March 2015}} For the second time in his career, Iñárritu's film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards; Javier Bardem's performance was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/oscars-2011-nominees-list-academy-awards-nominations_n_813399.html|title=Oscars 2011 Nominations List: Academy Awards Nominees|work=The Huffington Post|date=25 January 2011|accessdate=8 March 2015}} In 2010, Iñárritu directed "Write the Future", a football-themed commercial for Nike ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which went on to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1760926/anatomy-cannes-winner-nike-write-future|title=Anatomy of a Cannes Winner: Nike "Write The Future"|magazine=Fast Company|date=28 June 2011|accessdate=8 March 2015}} In 2012, he directed Procter & Gamble's "Best Job" commercial spot for the 2012 Olympic Ceremonies. It won the Best Primetime Commercial Emmy at Creative Arts Emmy Awards{{cite web|url=http://news.pg.com/blog/company-strategy/pg-earns-praise-best-job-commercial-innovation-sustainability-efforts|title=P&G Earns Praise For 'Best Job' Commercial, Innovation, Sustainability Efforts|publisher=Procter & Gamble|date=19 September 2012|accessdate=8 March 2015}} and the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/directors-guild-award-winners-2015-dga-winner-list-dga-awards-1201368698/|title=DGA Awards: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Wins Best Feature Film Director For 'Birdman', TV Winners Include Lesli Linka Glatter 'Homeland' & Jill Soloway 'Transparent'|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=7 February 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}} On 4 October 2012, Facebook released an Iñárritu-directed brand film titled The Things That Connect Us to celebrate the social network reaching one billion users.{{cite web |title=Facebook runs first ad as it reaches 1 billion users |url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/october/facebook-things-that-connect-us |website=Creative Review |date=4 October 2012 |accessdate=6 January 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106174752/http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/october/facebook-things-that-connect-us |archivedate=6 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}
In December 2013, Warner Bros. hired Iñárritu to direct a live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book The Jungle Book. Eventually, Andy Serkis directed the film titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018).{{cite news|first=Rebecca|last=Ford|title=Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu in Talks to Direct Warner Bros.' 'Jungle Book' Film|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-talks-direct-662507|date=December 4, 2013|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=March 26, 2024}} In 2014, Iñárritu won three Academy Awards for directing, co-writing and co-producing Best Picture winner Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, and Andrea Riseborough. The film is an existential dark comedy exploring the ego of a forgotten superhero actor, experienced as if filmed on a single shot. It was the first time a Mexican Filmmaker received Best Picture at the Academy Awards. He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a DGA Award and a PGA Award for the film.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-alejandro-gonz-lez-762708|title=Golden Globes: 'Birdman's' Alejandro González Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo Win for Best Screenplay|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=11 January 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-wins-best-director-oscar-for-birdman-1201439309/|title=Oscars: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Wins Best Director for 'Birdman'|work=Variety|date=22 February 2015|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Iñárritu was also set to direct and produce the tv series One Percent, an organic farming drama which he co-created with Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, and Armando Bo for Starz.{{cite news|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|title=Ed Helms, Hilary Swank & Ed Harris In Talks To Star In Alejandro González Iñárritu's MRC Series 'One Percent'|url=https://deadline.com/2014/07/ed-helms-hilary-swank-ed-harris-to-star-in-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-mrc-series-one-percent-807830/|date=July 22, 2014|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=March 26, 2024}} Starz gave the show a straight-to-series order,{{cite news|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|title=Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's 'One Percent' Gets Series Order At Starz|url=https://deadline.com/2014/08/alejandro-g-inarritu-one-percent-gets-series-order-at-starz-818088/|date=August 12, 2014|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=March 26, 2024}} but dropped out in 2017 as the U.S. broadcaster of the series, with production company MRC shopping the project to other networks or streaming platforms.{{cite news|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|title=Alejandro G. Iñárritu's MRC Series 'The One Percent' No Longer At Starz, Moves Forward With Greg Kinnear As New Lead|url=https://deadline.com/2017/03/alejandro-g-inarritu-the-one-percent-starz-exit-greg-kinnear-cast-mrc-series-1202035083/|date=March 2, 2017|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=March 26, 2024}}{{cite news|first=Adam|last=Chitwood|title=Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Ambitious TV Series 'The One Percent' Dropped by Starz|url=https://collider.com/alejandro-g-inarritu-tv-series-the-one-percent-starz/|date=March 3, 2017|website=Collider|access-date=March 26, 2024}}
In 2015, Iñárritu directed The Revenant, initially adapted by Mark L. Smith, before joined the writing process, based on Michael Punke's novel of the same name.{{cite web | author = Fleming, Mike Jr. | date = 15 April 2014 | title=Leonardo DiCaprio, Alejandro González Iñárritu Commit To September Start For New Regency's 'The Revenant' | url=https://deadline.com/2014/04/leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-commit-to-september-start-for-new-regencys-the-revenant-715065/ | access-date=29 July 2014 | work =Deadline Hollywood}}{{cite news|title=Leonardo DiCaprio will make his return in The Revenant|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/16/leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu|accessdate=27 June 2014|work=The Guardian}} The film is a remake {{cite web|title='The Revenant' Is Slow-Paced Suffering Leo DiCaprio Stars in Remake of an Epic Western|url=https://www.independent.com/2016/01/13/revenant-is-slow-paced-suffering//|work=Santa Barbara Independent|accessdate=26 August 2022|date=13 January 2016}} of the film Man in the Wilderness (1971) and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Domhnall Gleeson.{{cite web|title=Leonardo DiCaprio's Survival Drama 'The Revenant' Attracts Megan Ellison's Annapurna|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/leonardo-dicaprios-survival-drama-the-revenant-attracts-megan-ellisons-annapurna-1201261423/|work=Variety|accessdate=20 January 2016|date=11 July 2014}} It is a "gritty" 19th-century period drama-thriller about fur trapper Hugh Glass, a real person who joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company on a "journey into the wild" and was robbed and abandoned after being mauled by a grizzly bear. The film considers the nature and stresses on relationships under the duress of the wilderness, and issues of revenge and pardon via Glass's pursuit of the man who was responsible for his hardship.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-leonardo-dicaprios-revenant-shoot-810290|title=How Leonardo DiCaprio's 'The Revenant' Shoot Became "A Living Hell"|last=Masters|first=Kim|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=22 July 2015|accessdate=22 July 2015}} The Revenant took nine months to shoot.{{cite web|last1=Chitwood|first1=Adam|title=Alejandro González Iñárritu Explains Why The Revenant Is Taking 9 Months to Shoot|url=https://collider.com/the-revenant-filming-details-inarritu/|work=Collider|accessdate=11 August 2015|date=3 February 2015}} With The Revenant being a critical and commercial success, Iñárritu won a second consecutive Oscar for Best Director{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-revenant-2015|title=The Revenant|work=Metacritic|accessdate=28 December 2015}} and was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscar-nominations-2016-full-list-855670 |title=Oscar Nominations: The Complete List |work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=14 January 2016 |accessdate=29 January 2016}} Iñárritu is one of only three directors to ever win consecutive Oscars, and the first to do it in 65 years. He was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, winning three, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director;{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/movies/golden-globes.html|title=The Revenant Wins Best Dramatic Film at the Golden Globes|date=10 January 2016|work=The New York Times|accessdate=11 January 2016}} received nine Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director;{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/awards/critics-choice-award-nominations-2016-1201660217/|title=Critics' Choice Award Nominations Led by 'Mad Max,' 'Fargo'|work= Variety|date=14 December 2015|accessdate=14 December 2015}} five BAFTAs including Best Picture and Best Director; and a DGA Award, making history as the first person to ever win two in a row.
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The One Percent, originally planned as an upcoming American television drama series created and written by Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó, was eventually postponed on early March 2017 due to Alejandro feeling burnt out after the production of The Revenant. The quartet, who also collaborated on Birdman, were to serve as executive producers. Iñárritu was set to direct the first two episodes and set the visual style of the show.{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=2014-08-12 |title=Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's 'One Percent' Gets Series Order At Starz |url=https://deadline.com/2014/08/alejandro-g-inarritu-one-percent-gets-series-order-at-starz-818088/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} Iñárritu's virtual reality project Carne y Arena was the first ever VR installation presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Carne y Arena was also presented, at LACMA, Washington, D.C., and featured at the Prada Foundation in Milan.{{Cite web |date=2017-06-06 |title=Fondazione Prada: Alejandro G. Iñárritu "CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) |url=https://www.worldartfoundations.com/fondazione-prada-alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=World Art Foundations |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Alejandro G. Iñárritu: CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) |url=http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=LACMA |language=en}} Additionally, Carne y Arena was awarded the first Special Achievement Academy Award in over 20 years at the Academy's 9th Annual Governors Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://oscar.go.com/news/winners/alejandro-inarritu-s-carne-y-arena-awarded-a-special-award-oscar-at-the-academy-s-9th-annual-governor-s-awards|title=Alejandro Inarritu's "CARNE y ARENA" Awarded a Special Award Oscar at the Academy's 9th Annual Governors Awards|website=oscar.go.com|last=Dove|first=Steve|date=13 November 2017|access-date=1 March 2019}}
= 2020–present =
Iñárritu co-wrote, co-produced and directed the 2022 Spanish-language film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani. It is his first film made in Mexico since Amores Perros (2000).{{Cite web|url=https://discussingfilm.net/2020/03/22/alejandro-g-inarritu-set-to-write-direct-new-film-with-bradford-young-patrice-vermette/|title=Alejandro G. Iñárritu Set To Write & Direct New Film With Bradford Young & Patrice Vermette|work= Discussing Film|date=22 March 2022|accessdate=24 June 2022}} It premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and was later distributed by Netflix. Bardo polarized critics and received mixed reviews.{{cite web|url= https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2023/01/02/review-the-polarizing-indulgence-of-alejandro-g-inarritus-bardo/|title= Review: The Polarizing Indulgence of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 'Bardo'|website= The Times of San Diego|date= 3 January 2023|accessdate= July 27, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://theplaylist.net/close-bardo-decision-to-leave-make-international-film-shortlist-20221221/|title= 'Close,' 'Bardo,' 'Decision To Leave' Make International Film Shortlist|website= The Playlist|accessdate= July 27, 2024}} Film critic Wendy Ide of The Guardian called the film "occasionally brilliant" and "audacious, bold film-making" but "cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard".{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/20/bardo-false-chronicle-of-a-handful-of-truths-inarritu-review-bloated-occasionally-brilliant|title= Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths review – bloated, occasionally brilliant|newspaper= The Observer|date= 20 November 2022|accessdate= July 27, 2024|last1= Ide|first1= Wendy}} Iñárritu described the response from critics as being "racist" saying, "You can like it or not — that's not the discussion. But for me, there's a kind of racist undercurrent where because I'm Mexican, I'm pretentious".{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-09-04/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-bardo-critics|title= Alejandro G. Iñárritu answers critics of his new film: 'There's a kind of racist undercurrent'|website= The Los Angeles Times|date= 5 September 2022|accessdate= July 27, 2024}} It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 85th Academy Awards.{{cite web|url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-2023-winners-list-nominees/|title= Oscars 2023: List of winners and nominees|website= CBS News|date= 13 March 2023|accessdate= July 27, 2024}}
In February 2024, it was announced that he is making a new English-language film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, with Legendary Pictures co-producing. Tom Cruise is set to star.{{cite web |first=Justin |last=Kroll |url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/tom-cruise-alejandro-inarritu-next-legendary-1235833486/ |title=Tom Cruise To Star In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Next Film At Warner Bros. And Legendary |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=February 22, 2024 |access-date=February 23, 2024}}
Influences
Iñarritu's cinematic influences include Max Ophüls, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, Yılmaz Güney, and John Cassavetes. However, his influences are not limited to film and come from a variety of sources.{{Cite web |title=Alejandro Gonzazalez Iñarritu's Cinematic Style |url=https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-biography/ |website=highsnobiety.com|last=Papish|first=Brian|date=March 2016 |access-date=6 July 2022}}
Personal life
Iñárritu has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.{{cite web |last1=González Iñárritu |first1=Alejandro |title=Alejandro González Iñárritu |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/encuentros/anteriores/2006/12/2287/index.html |website=El Mundo |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=Spanish |date=21 December 2006}} He is married to Maria Eladia Hagerman, an editor and graphic designer. They have a daughter, Maria Eladia, and a son, Eliseo.{{cite news|date=10 October 2014|title=In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-birdman-inarritu-20141012-story.html#page=2|accessdate=12 July 2015}}
In 2009, Iñárritu, along with several filmmakers and actors, signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival following his arrest in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."{{cite web|date=10 November 2009|title=Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski!|url=https://laregledujeu.org/2009/11/10/479/signez-la-petition-pour-roman-polanski/|access-date=26 May 2021|work=La Règle du Jeu|language=fr}}{{cite web|title=Petition for Roman Polanski Signatories|url=https://www.altfg.com/film/petition-for-roman-polanski-signatories/|access-date=26 May 2021}}{{cite web|date=29 September 2009|title=Over 100 In Film Community Sign Polanski Petition|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2009/09/over-100-in-film-community-sign-polanski-petition-55821/|access-date=26 May 2021|work=IndieWire}}
Filmography
=Feature films=
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! Year ! Title ! width="65" | Director ! width="65" | Producer ! width="65" | Writer ! Notes |
2000
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | Also editor |
2003
| 21 Grams | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
2005
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
2006
| Babel | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{partial|Idea}} | |
2008
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
2009
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
2010
| Biutiful | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |
2014
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |
2015
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |
2022
| Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Also editor and composer |
2026
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Post-production |
=Short films=
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! Year ! Title ! width="65" | Director ! width="65" | Producer ! width="65" | Writer ! width="65" | Editor ! Notes |
1996
| El timbre | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
2001
| Powder Keg | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
2002
| "Mexico" | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Also sound designer |
2007
| "Anna" | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | Segment from the film To Each His Own Cinema |
2012
| Naran Ja{{cite video|title=Naran Ja|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kR9RHeGacI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/6kR9RHeGacI |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | |
2017
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |
=Commercials=
Accolades and honors
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Alejandro González Iñárritu}}
Iñárritu has been recognized with multiple awards for his films, including five Academy Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, three British Academy Film Awards, three AACTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, two American Film Institute Awards, and three Cannes Film Festival Award. He 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. In 2015, Iñárritu won, among many other accolades, the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directing, the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Directing for Birdman, becoming the first Mexican to win three Academy awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.latintimes.com/alejandro-g-inarritu-makes-history-first-mexican-3-oscars-best-movie-best-director-298427|title=Alejandro G. Iñárritu Makes History As First Mexican With 3 Oscars: Best Movie, Best Director And Best Screenplay|work=Latin Times|date=23 February 2015|accessdate=27 October 2015}} In 2016, Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on The Revenant, marking the first time in 65 years that a director has won the award in two consecutive years. Iñárritu is the third director to accomplish this feat, following John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2016/02/alejandro-innaritu-oscar-winner-best-director-2016-academy-awards-1201710556/|title=Alejandro Innaritu Wins Best Director Oscar For The Revenant|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=28 February 2016|accessdate=28 February 2016}}
In 2006, Iñárritu was honored at the Gotham Awards' World Cinema Tribute, alongside fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/awards/alfonso-cuaron-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-and-guillermo-del-toro-1117954636/|title=Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo del Toro|work=Variety|date=28 November 2006|accessdate=27 October 2015}} In 2011, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Zurich Film Festival.{{Cite web |title=Zurich Film Festival |url=http://zff.com/de/archiv/programm-2011/ehrengaeste/career-achievement-award-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/ |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=Zurich Film Festival |language=de}} In 2015, Iñárritu received the Sundance Institute's Vanguard Leadership Award for the "originality and independent spirit" of his films. He was also honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at its Art + Film Gala.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-james-turrell-lacma-20150715-story.html|title=Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, James Turrell to be honored by LACMA|work=Variety|date=15 July 2015|accessdate=27 October 2015}} That year, he received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California.{{Cite web |title=Past Recipients – Honorary Degrees |url=https://honorarydegrees.usc.edu/past-recipients/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=honorarydegrees.usc.edu}} In 2019, he was also made Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters in France.
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|+ Awards and nominations received by Iñárritu's films |
rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" | Title ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Academy Awards ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| BAFTA Awards ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Golden Globe Awards |
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Nominations
! Wins ! Nominations ! Wins ! Nominations ! Wins |
2000
| align="center" |1 | | align="center" |1 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |1 | |
2003
| align="center" |2 | | align="center" |5 | | | |
2006
| align="center" |7 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |7 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |7 | align="center" |1 |
2010
| align="center" |2 | | align="center" |2 | | align="center" |1 | |
2014
|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | align="center" |9 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |10 | align="center" |1 | align="center" |7 | align="center" |2 |
2015
| align="center" |12 | align="center" |3 | align="center" |8 | align="center" |5 | align="center" |4 | align="center" |3 |
2017
| align="center" |1 | align="center" |1 | | | | |
2022
|Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | align="center" |1 | | | | | |
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! align="center" |35 ! align="center" |8 ! align="center" |33 ! align="center" |8 ! align="center" |20 ! align="center" |6 |
Directed Academy Award performances
Under Iñárritu's direction, these actors have received the Academy Award nominations and wins for their performances in their respective roles.
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! Performer ! Film ! Result |
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2011
| Biutiful | {{nom}} |
2015
| Birdman | {{nom}} |
2016
| {{won}} |
colspan="4" style="background-color:#DDDAFE; text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Actress |
2004
| 21 Grams | {{nom}} |
colspan="4" style="background-color:#DDDAFE; text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2004
| 21 Grams | {{nom}} |
2015
| Birdman | {{nom}} |
2016
| The Revenant | {{nom}} |
colspan="4" style="background-color:#DDDAFE; text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
rowspan="2"| 2008
| rowspan="2"| Babel | {{nom}} |
Rinko Kikuchi
| {{nom}} |
2015
| Birdman | {{nom}} |
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
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- [https://www.metacritic.com/person/alejandro-g-inarritu/ Alejandro González Iñárritu] at Metacritic
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