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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is a Mexican filmmaker, born August 15 1963 in Mexico City, known for psychological drama films about the human condition. His features include Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015) and Bardo (2022). His work has won five Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, and he won the Best Director Oscar for both Birdman and The Revenant, becoming only the third director to win that category in consecutive years, a feat last achieved 65 years earlier. In 2006 he won the Cannes Film Festival Best Director award for Babel, the first Mexican-born director to receive it, and he is the only director to win the DGA Award for Outstanding Directing in consecutive years. He also received a Special Achievement Academy Award for his 2017 virtual reality installation Carne y Arena, the first VR work presented at Cannes.

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker.
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Birdman, stylized as BiRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is a 2014 American satirical surrealist black comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican psychological drama film produced and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by both.
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