Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Early career He started his career as a DJ in 1984 at the top-rated Mexican radio station WFM. In 1988 he began composing music for six Mexican feature films, including Garra de tigre (1989). He studied filmmaking in Maine and Los Angeles, under Polish film director Ludwik Margules and studied directing under Judith Weston in Los Angeles. In the nineties he was in charge of the production of Televisa, a Mexican TV company. By the time he was 27 he had become one of their youngest directors. In 1991, after Televisa, he set up Zeta Films, a society for producing advertising and short films as well as television programs and started writing and shooting TV commercials Path to fame His first half-length feature, Detras del dinero, was produced in 1995 for Televisa and starred Spanish actor/singer Miguel Bose. With screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga he planned to make 11 shorts showing the contradictions of Mexico City. After 3 years and 36 drafts, they ended up expanding three stories into the feature length film, Amores perros (2000) starring Gael Garcia Bernal. This gritty look at the underbelly of Mexican life garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film as well as a BAFTA Film Award for "Best Film not in the English Language," the Critics Week Grand Prize and Young Critics Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as well as many other awards from festivals and societies around the world. Gonzalez Inarritu made the final short ("Powder Keg") in the BMW The Hire series and directed the Mexico segment of the independent feature 11'09'01 - September 11 (2002), a collective movie about the influence of 9-11 on the world, along with Claude Lelouch, Shohei Imamura, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Amos Gitai and Sean Penn. Move to Hollywood The success of Amores perros led to Gonzalez Inarritu directing a second film, this time in the U.S., titled 21 Grams. Again written by Guillermo Arriaga, it starred Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Del Toro and Watts received Academy Award nominations for their performances. His most recent project, Babel, consisted of four stories set in Morocco, Mexico, the United States, and Japan, in four different time frames. It was released in November 2006 and stars Brad Pitt, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Koji Yakusho. He earned the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise en scene) at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Babel would also go on to win the Best Motion Picture in the drama category at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2007. However, Gonzalez Inarritu was severely criticized for banning writer Guillermo Arriaga from attending the 2006 Cannes Film Festival after a serious falling out between the two. The dispute is thought to relate to the authorship of Gonzalez Inarritu's previous film 21 Grams; insiders have stated that Arriaga wanted the screenplay to be credited as a collaborative effort, while Gonzalez Inarritu claimed sole credit as the author of the film. Sources in the industry believe that it is unlikely that the pair will ever work together again. Babel received 7 nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Achievement in Directing, He has recently made another short film, ANNA, which will be screening at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival inside Chacun son cinema. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Maria Eladia Hagerman de Gonzalez and their two children Maria Eladia and Eliseo. |
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