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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Judy
2026
Producer, Director, Screenplay
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
2022
Writer, Editor, Original Music Composer
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
2021
Executive Producer
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
2020
as Self (archive footage)
A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.

The Gaze of the Sea
2018
Executive Producer
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
2017
as Self (archive footage)
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
2017
Director, Writer
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
2016
as Self
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'
2016
as Self
A new documentary directed by Eliot Rausch exploring the production of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant

The Revenant
2015
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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)
2015
as Self
A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2013
Thanks
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
2013
as Self
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
2013
as Self
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
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
2012
Associate Producer
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
2011
as Self
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
2011
Director
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
2011
as Self
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

Biutiful
2010
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2009
Executive Producer
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
2008
Producer
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
2007
Director, Writer
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
2007
as Self
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
2007
as Self
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
2007
Camera Operator
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Anna
2007
Director
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
2007
as Himself
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
2007
Thanks
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.

Babel
2006
Director, Producer, Idea
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Pan's Labyrinth
2006
Thanks
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
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
2005
Executive Producer
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
as Self
A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

21 Grams
2003
Director, Producer
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
2002
Director, Producer, Editor
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
2001
Thanks
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
2001
Director, Editor, Writer
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
2000
Editor, Director, Producer
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
1996
Director, Producer, Writer
Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Detras del dinero
1995
Director
A series of events related to a 100 dollar bill.

Garra de tigre
1989
Music
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
1987
Original Music Composer
Mexican feature film