Alejandro Amenábar

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Alejandro Amenábar (2015)

Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean-Spanish film director , screenwriter and composer .

Life

Amenábar was born in Chile as the son of a Chilean and a Spanish woman. In August 1973, a few weeks before Augusto Pinochet's military coup , the family emigrated to Madrid , where Amenábar grew up. He began studying information science at the Complutense Madrid University , but soon turned entirely to cinematography . Amenábar has been openly homosexual since 2004 . Amenábar has received film prizes for several short films, for example the AICA short film prize for his first work La cabeza . His first feature film Tesis - The Snuff Film , for which he also wrote the screenplay with Mateo Gil , was awarded seven Goyas in 1997 .

American actor Tom Cruise bought the rights to Amenábar's second film, Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes , to produce the remake Vanilla Sky four years later . Amenábar had initially decided against the sale of the rights, but finally agreed. In return, Tom Cruise enabled him to direct the English-language film The Others and offered his then-wife Nicole Kidman to play the leading role.

For the drama The Sea in Me , published in 2004 , which deals with euthanasia , he won the European Film Award for Best Director . The film with Javier Bardem in the leading role won, among other things, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Globe .

Filmography

Director

music

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alejandro Amenábar: "No me importa reconocer que soy gay

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personal data
SURNAME Amenábar, Alejandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amenábar Cantos, Alejandro Fernando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile