Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu is a film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has won the Academy Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. These three distinctions represent the highest formal recognition his work has received and reflect his involvement in filmmaking across multiple roles simultaneously.
González Iñárritu was born on August 15, 1963, in Mexico City, and holds Mexican citizenship. He received his education at the Ibero-American University. His professional practice spans the roles of director, screenwriter, and producer, and he works in both Spanish and English.
His Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay mark the most documented achievements in the available record of his career. As a Mexican citizen who works across Spanish and English, González Iñárritu has operated in more than one linguistic context as a director, screenwriter, and producer.
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I think Jenny Beavan is a masterful costume designer and very deserving of the Oscar for 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'
I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that the audience will never be lost. A comfortable way to produce a film with green screens or without a lot of physical effort or losing control because of the weather or physical locations.
I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be interacting with the sensations of the story, you almost become like a ghost, you know? Like, someone that is floating, observing, not really judging what's going on.
When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.
If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.
I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.
I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.
It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.
I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.