Alejandro González Iñárritu

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Alejandro González Iñárritu during a film production in Barcelona (2008)
Alejandro González Iñárritu at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián (2006)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (born August 15, 1963 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican film director , screenwriter and film producer . He won numerous awards for his film Birdman (2014), including three Academy Awards , two Golden Globes and a DGA Award . The following year he won another Oscar for directing for The Revenant . Along with John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, he is one of the few directors to have won an award at successive Oscar awards.

Life

González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for Best Director at both the Academy Awards and the Directors Guild of America . He is also the only Mexican director to win the 2006 Cannes Film Festival directing award. The six films Amores Perros (2000), 21 Gramm (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015) have earned him worldwide recognition. For her he received an Oscar in the categories of Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film; Birdman also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Youth and career

The son of Héctor González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu grew up in the Colonia Narvarte , a medium-sized neighborhood near downtown Mexico City . His father was a wealthy banker until Alejandro was around six years old. Then he lost his fortune, went broke, but went back to business, buying fruit and vegetables in the Central de Abastos market to sell to restaurants that day.

Although he suffered some hardship as a child, Alejandro was a happy child. As a teenager, at the age of 17 and 19, he crossed the ocean to Europe by cleaning the floors of a cargo ship and greasing the machines. The second time he stayed in Europe and Africa and lived on only $ 1,000.

He counts these physical and mental experiences as one of the essential sources for his work. Reading existentialist authors in this phase of his youth also had a major impact on his later cinematic work.

He studied communication science at the Universidad Iberoamericana , from 1984 he also worked as a radio presenter for the Mexican radio station WFM. In 1986 he became the artistic director of the station that played rock and miscellaneous music and was to be the most important for the younger audience in Mexico City for five years. From 1987 to 1989 Iñárritu composed scores for six Mexican feature films. He also studied theater studies with the well-known Polish director Ludwik Margules . He later studied directing in Maine and Los Angeles under Judith Weston. In the 1990s, he co-founded Z Films with Raúl Olvera to write, produce and direct feature films, short films, audio commercials and television programs. In 1995, Z Films was one of the largest and most powerful film production companies, which included seven young directors who later all directed feature films.

The road to fame

In 1995, a half-length television feature film entitled Detrás del Dinero, which Alejandro wrote, produced and directed, and starred Spanish actor and singer Miguel Bosé , was broadcast.

Three years after he made the acquaintance of Guillermo Arriaga and after 36 drafts with the screenwriter, he finally had three stories that turned into a feature-length film, Amores Perros (2000), in which Gael García Bernal can also be seen in his first role in the cinema . This somber look at the dark side of Mexican life garnered nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the British Academy Film Awards for Best Non-English Language Film . At the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the Week Grand Prize and the Young Critic Award. With over 60 awards, Amores Perros was the world's most popular film that year.

González Iñárritu made the fifth short film (The Powder Keg) in the BMW series The Hire with Ang Lee , Wong Kar Wai , Guy Ritchie and John Frankenheimer . A little later he directed the independent feature film 11'09 ″ 01 - September 11 (2002), a film about the global effects of September 11th , together with Claude Lelouch , Shōhei Imamura , Ken Loach , Mira Nair , Amos Gitai and Sean Penn .

Move to Hollywood

After Amores Perros , the film 21 grams was González Iñárritus' second directorial work. Arriaga wrote the script again, to which González Iñárritu also contributed ideas. The main roles were played by Benicio del Toro , Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The film was presented in Venice and Sean Penn won the Volpi Cup there. In 2004, Del Toro and Watts received Oscar nominations for their performance.

His project Babel consists of four stories set in four different time frames in Morocco , Mexico , the United States and Japan . It stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as part of a cast in which many were non-trained or new actors, such as Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi . The film premiered in Cannes in 2006, where it won the directing award. The film officially opened in cinemas in November 2006 and received seven nominations for the 2007 Academy Awards , including in the categories of Best Picture and Best Director. Gustavo Santaolalla won the award for the best score that year. Babel was also named Best Motion Picture in the 2007 Golden Globes in the Drama category.

In 2006, Arriaga and González Iñárritu fell out when Arriaga started its own campaign; Screenwriters should not only receive merit as such, but also as creators of the film on an equal footing with the director. After a contentious interview with Arriaga was published in the Mexican magazine Chilango , González Iñárritu got in touch with a brief message addressed to Arriaga saying that he was sorry for Arriaga because he needed media attention so badly and that he was should direct his own film in order to be able to claim the corresponding authorship for himself. The notice had been addressed to Arriaga about the interview; however, it has been quoted out of context in many Mexican press outlets. González Iñárritu added that someone who has never set foot on a set or directed a film cannot claim authorship. Ultimately, Arriaga's behavior led to his discharge at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Babel .

Iñárritu made the short film ANNA , an episode of the Chacun Son Cinéma project , which was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The screening was part of the festival marking the 60th anniversary of the film. Chacun Son Cinéma is a series of short films by 33 world-famous film directors such as Roman Polański , Abbas Kiarostami , the Coen Brothers, Theo Angelopoulos, David Cronenberg, the Dardenne Brothers, Manoel de Oliveria, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders and Zhang Yimou. In 2008 Iñárritu produced the feature film Rudo y Cursi , a melodrama directed by Carlos Cuarón and portrayed by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna as brothers who are both professional footballers.

In 2010 González Iñárritu directed Write the Future , a football- themed advertising film for Nike that set the mood for the 2010 World Cup and featured footballers like Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Franck Ribéry, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and Fabio Cannavaro, Andrés Iniesta, Gerard Piqué, Cesc Fàbregas, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, tennis player Roger Federer, basketball player Kobe Bryant, the famous cartoon character Homer Simpson as well as long-time employee Iñárritus, Gael García Bernal, and many others.

His film Biutiful , in which Javier Bardem played the leading role, premiered on May 17, 2010 in Cannes. Bardem was named best actor; he shared the title with Elio Germano for La Nostra Vita . It was his first Spanish-language film since Amores Perros . The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2010 Golden Globes and for Best Non-English Language Film at the British Academy Film Awards. He also represented Mexico in the Best Foreign Film category at the 2011 Academy Awards . Javier Bardem was also nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his role. The film received favorable reviews; some even claimed it was Iñárritus' best film yet.

In 2014 his film Birdman or (The unexpected power of cluelessness) appeared , in which Michael Keaton , Edward Norton and Emma Stone played and which received mostly positive reviews; It was nominated nine times and received the Oscar for best film, best director, best original screenplay and best camera.

At the end of 2015 his film The Revenant was released , in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy play the leading roles. The historical thriller won the awards in the categories of Best Film - Drama, Best Director and Best Actor - Drama (DiCaprio) at the Golden Globes awards ceremony . At the following Academy Awards , Iñárritu received the award for best director and a nomination in the category of best film.

In 2017, Iñárritu received a Special Award Oscar at the Governors Awards for his virtual reality film Carne y Arena (German title: Flesh and Sand) . For this he again cooperated with his compatriot Emmanuel Lubezki , who has already received three Oscars for best camera .

In 2019 he was selected as the jury president of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival . He is the first Mexican artist to take on this task.

Private life

González Iñárritu lives in Los Angeles with his wife María Eladia Hagerman de González and their two children.

Filmography

Awards (selection)

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Award

British Academy Film Award

Further awards

  • 2000: American Film Institute Award for Amores Perros (Audience Award - Best Feature Film)
  • 2000: National Board of Review Award for Amores Perros (Best Foreign Film)
  • 2000: National Board of Review Award for Amores Perros (Top 5 foreign films)
  • 2003: Independent Spirit Award for 21 grams (special award)
  • 2003: National Board of Review Award for 21 grams (top 10 films)
  • 2006: National Board of Review Award for Babel (Top 10 Films)
  • 2006: ALMA Award for Babel (Outstanding Director of a Feature Film)
  • 2012: Directors Guild of America Award for Best Job (Best Director of Commercials)
  • 2015: Independent Spirit Award for Birdman (Best Film)
  • 2015: Directors Guild of America Award for Birdman (Outstanding Director - Feature Films)
  • 2015: American Film Institute Award for Birdman (Film of the Year)
  • 2015: National Board of Review Award for Babel (Top 10 Films)
  • 2015: Producers Guild of America Award for Birdman (Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures)
  • 2015: Satellite Award for Birdman (Best Film)
  • 2015: AACTA International Award for Birdman (Best Film)
  • 2015: AACTA International Award for Birdman (Best Director)
  • 2015: AACTA International Award for Birdman (Best Screenplay)
  • 2016: Directors Guild of America Award for The Revenant (Outstanding Director - Feature Films)

literature

  • Ursula Vossen: [Article] Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. In: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Film directors (= film directors ). 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 , pp. 343-345.

Web links

Commons : Alejandro González Iñárritu  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "21 grams" - The weight of conscience . In: spiegel.de . February 27, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ An Oscar for refugee VR film "Carne y Arena" . In: tagesspiegel.de . October 28, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schütz: Alejandro Iñárritu: The great Oscar winner . In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . February 23, 2015. Accessed May 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME González Iñárritu, Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city