Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

1963-08-15 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico [now Mexico City, Mexico] 44 Credits

Biography

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 (20...

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Judy

Judy

2026

Producer, Director, Screenplay

Producing Directing Writing

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everythi...

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022

Writer, Editor, Original Music Composer

6.9
Writing Producing Directing

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, i...

Shake Your Cares Away

Shake Your Cares Away

2021

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma is left alone in their luxurious villa. Driven by a compulsion to do good, she invites home...

Perros, amores, accidentes

Perros, amores, accidentes

2020

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.

The Gaze of the Sea

The Gaze of the Sea

2018

Executive Producer

Producing

A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to deliver a message from the grieving families of fishermen lost at sea five years ago, at their la...

Plankton Salesmen

Plankton Salesmen

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company a...

Flesh and Sand

Flesh and Sand

2017

Director, Writer

9.0
Directing Writing

Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast spa...

Before the Flood

Before the Flood

2016

as Self

7.7
Acting

A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native commu...

A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'

A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'

2016

as Self

6.1
Acting

A new documentary directed by Eliot Rausch exploring the production of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant

The Revenant

The Revenant

2015

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.5
Directing Producing Writing

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

2015

as Self

7.2
Acting

A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Director, Producer, Writer

7.5
Directing Producing Writing

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...

Gravity

Gravity

2013

Thanks

7.2

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight befo...

Trespassing Bergman

Trespassing Bergman

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...

Gold

Gold

2013

as Self

10.0
Acting

Documentary about the triumph of the Mexican National Team at the Olympic Games in London. Discover tales, stories and hear the different perspective ...

Naran Ja

2012

Director

3.5
Directing

After being invited by Benjamin Millepied to a rehearsal for the L.A Dance Project's premiere performance, Oscar-nominated director Alejandro G. Iñárr...

The Last Elvis

The Last Elvis

2012

Associate Producer

5.9
Producing

In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end fac...

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

2011

as Self

6.0
Acting

A behind-the-scenes documentary that combines recorded rehearsals and intimate moments with audio and video diary notes from director Alejandro Gonzál...

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

2011

Director

6.0
Directing

A behind-the-scenes documentary that combines recorded rehearsals and intimate moments with audio and video diary notes from director Alejandro Gonzál...

Kurosawa's Way

Kurosawa's Way

2011

as Self

5.4
Acting

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

Biutiful

Biutiful

2010

Director, Producer, Writer

7.2
Directing Producing Writing

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and fa...

Mother and Child

Mother and Child

2009

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for ado...

Rudo & Cursi

Rudo & Cursi

2008

Producer

7.0
Producing

Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fa...

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Cannes: All Access

Cannes: All Access

2007

as Self

3.7
Acting

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red ...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

as Self

10.0
Acting

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

Camera Operator

10.0

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Anna

Anna

2007

Director

Directing

An emotionally intense short film about a blind woman who is profoundly moved listening to her boyfriend interpret the end of Jean-Luc Godard's Contem...

Sexo en el plató

Sexo en el plató

2007

as Himself

6.0
Acting

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk ab...

Year of the Nail

Year of the Nail

2007

Thanks

7.0

A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.

Babel

Babel

2006

Director, Producer, Idea

7.2
Directing Producing

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

2006

Thanks

7.8

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth g...

Toro Negro

2006

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

Intimate and fascinating portrait of Fernando, also known as El Suicida and El Negro, a bull fighter in the slums of the Mexican Yucutan Peninsular. S...

Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

21 Grams: In Fragments

21 Grams: In Fragments

2004

as Self

Acting

A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

21 Grams

21 Grams

2003

Director, Producer

7.3
Directing Producing

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of t...

11’09”01—September 11

11’09”01—September 11

2002

Director, Producer, Editor

6.4
Directing Producing Writing

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...

Y Tu Mamá También

Y Tu Mamá También

2001

Thanks

7.4

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Powder Keg

Powder Keg

2001

Director, Editor, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs ...

Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000

Editor, Director, Producer

7.6
Directing Producing

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...

The Ringer

The Ringer

1996

Director, Producer, Writer

6.0
Directing Producing Writing

Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Detras del dinero

Detras del dinero

1995

Director

5.0
Directing

A series of events related to a 100 dollar bill.

Garra de tigre

Garra de tigre

1989

Music

4.0

Before Fujama dies, he asks his sons Tony and Dany to end his brother's karate school. Rosita takes them to the jungle where the school is and there t...

Fiera solitaria

Fiera solitaria

1987

Original Music Composer

5.3

Mexican feature film