Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu ( born August 15, 1963 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the category of Best Director at the Oscars as well as for the best director by the Directors Guild of America. He is also the first and only Mexican director ever to win (2006) the director's prize at the film festival in Cannes. His four feature films Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel ( 2006) and Biutiful (2010) have earned him worldwide recognition, including two Oscar nominations.
Youth and Career
He was born in Mexico City as a child of Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu. He grew up in La Colonia Narvarte, a medium-sized district near downtown in Mexico City. His father was initially a wealthy banker, as Alejandro but at six years old was the father went bankrupt and lost his fortune. Alejandro claims that his father was a role model for him, because he had taken care of " by virtue of a warrior " to the family. The father was doing business again by he bought on the market Central de Abastos fruit and vegetables to sell to restaurants this on the same day. Although he had to accept some hardships as a child, Alejandro was a happy child. As a youth, aged 17 and 19, he crossed the ocean on a cargo ship to Europe, where he cleaned the floors and greased the machines. The second time he then remained in Europe and Africa and lived during which only $ 1,000. These physical and intellectual experience, he is one of major influences in his work. He also indicates that reading existentialist writers have impacted in this phase of his youth, much to his later film work.
He studied Communication Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana, while at the same time in 1984 he began a career as a radio presenter on the Mexican radio station WFM. In 1986, he became the manager of this station that played rock music and miscellaneous and five years, the most important transmitters should be among younger Audited classes in Mexico City. From 1987 to 1989 he composed music for six Mexican feature films. He also studied theater at the famous Polish director Ludwik Margules. Later he also studied directing in Maine and Los Angeles under Judith Weston. In the 1990s he founded Z Films with Raul Olvera to write feature films, short films, Hörwerbungen and television programs, to produce and direct it at them. 1995 Z film was one of the largest and strongest film production companies, which included seven young directors, all of which led later directed feature films.
The path to glory
In 1995, a television movie called half-length Detrás del Dinero was broadcast, the written Alejandro and produced and in which he had also directed the film and in which the Spanish actor and singer Miguel Bosé was seen.
Three years after he had made the acquaintance of Guillermo Arriaga's and after 36 drafts with the screenwriter, he eventually had three stories that have been to a movie full length, Amores Perros (2000 ) in which to see and Gael García Bernal in his first movie role had. This gloomy view of the underbelly of Mexican life drew both nominations at the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as at the British Academy Film Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film. At the film festival in Cannes, he was awarded the Week Grand Prize and the Young Critic Award. With over 60 awards Amores Perros was the meistgekürte movie in the world this year.
González Iñárritu made the fifth short film ( The Powder Keg ) in the BMW The Hire series along with Ang Lee, Wong Kar Wai, Guy Ritchie and John Frankenheimer. A little later he directed the independent feature film 11'09 " September 1, 11 (2002), a film about the global impact of the eleventh September along with Claude Lelouch, Shohei Imamura, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Amos Gitai and Sean Penn.
Moving to Hollywood
After Amores Perros González Iñárritu decided to be directing a second film released under the title 21 Grams. Guillermo Arriaga wrote the script again. However, based on ideas from both. Leading roles played therein Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The film was shown in Venice, where she won the Volpi Cup for the actor Sean Penn. 2004 Del Toro and Watts received at the Oscars nominations for her performance.
His project Babel consisted of four stories, who played in four different time frames in Morocco, Mexico, the United States and Japan. In the lead roles Brad Pitt and Cate Blanc Hett were to be seen as part of a occupation in which many were has sustained no or new actor, so such as Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi. The film was pre- leads in Cannes in 2006, where he won the Best Director Award. In November 2006 of the film ran officially at in the cinemas and received seven nominations for the Oscar Ceremony 2007, including for the categories best picture and best director. Gustavo Santaolalla won this year the award for the best score. Babel also won 2007, the award Best Motion Picture in the Drama - category at the Golden Globe Awards.
2006 quarreled Arriaga and González Iñárritu, as Arriaga own campaign was launched, in which it was said that writers should not only receive as such merits, but also as the author of the film passu with the director. After a contentious interview with Arriaga in the Mexican magazine Chilango was published, González Iñárritu reported with a brief message that was addressed to Arriaga and in which he said Arriaga was sorry because he was so in need of media attention and that he should be directing his own film, to take the appropriate authorship lay claim to. This message was addressed to Arriaga for the interview, but has been largely quoted in the Mexican press organs outside of the relationship. González Iñárritu answered this by saying that someone who had never set foot on a set or guided directed a film, accordingly, could claim no authorship of the film. Ultimately led Arriaga's behavior to his throat at the film festival in Cannes from the premiere of Babel.
Furthermore, he made the short film ANNA, an episode of the project Chacun Son Cinéma, which was shown at the film festival in Cannes 2007. The demonstration was part of the Festival on the 60th anniversary of the film. Chacun Son Cinéma is a series of short films from thirty-three world-famous film directors such as Roman Polanski, Abbas Kiarostami, the Coen brothers, Theo Angelopoulos, David Cronenberg, the Dardenne brothers, Manoel de Oliveria, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou. In 2008 he produced the feature film Rudo y Cursi, a comedy drama, in which Carlos Cuarón directed and in which Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna represent two brothers who are both professional footballers.
In 2010, Iñárritu directed Write the Future, a revolving around the theme of football commercial for Nike, who prepared for the Football World Cup in 2010 and seen in the soccer players were like Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Franck Ribery, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Fabio Cannavaro, Andrés Iniesta, Gerard Pique, Cesc Fàbregas, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, tennis player Roger Federer, basketball player Kobe Bryant, the famous cartoon character Homer Simpson and the long-term employees Iñárritu, Gael García Bernal and a few others.
His last film Biutiful, in which Javier Bardem played the lead role, had its premiere in Cannes Bardem was born on 17 May 2010. Award for Best Actor. This title he shared with Elio Germano for La Nostra Vita. It was his first Spanish-language film Amores Perros since. The film was nominated at the 2010 Golden Globes in the category " Best Foreign Film" and at the British Academy Film Awards in the category "Best non- English speaking " movie. He also represented Mexico in the category "Best Foreign Film " at the Oscars 2011. Javier Bardem was also nominated for his role for an Oscar for Best Actor. The film garnered favorable reviews, of which some claim he was Iñárritu's best film so far.
Private life
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife María Eladia Hagerman de González and their two children María Eladia and Eliseo.