Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu born August 15 1963 is a Mexican filmmaker primarily known for making psychological drama films about the human condition His films Amores Perros 2000 and Biutiful 2010 each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and be earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams 2003 and Babel 2006 For Birdman 2014 he personally won three Academy Awards Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay The following year he again won Best Director for The Revenant 2015 making him the third director to win backtoback after John Ford and Joseph L Mankiewicz Iñárritu was later awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena 2017 Iñárritu became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the Academy Awards history and the first to win for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture He was the first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at Cannes and the first to win a DGA Award for Outstanding Directing In 2019 Iñárritu became the first Latin American to serve as jury president for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival Iñárritu and Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are known in the film industry as The Three Amigos Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia