---
name: "Alejandro González Iñárritu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alejandro-g-inarritu"
fi1m_id: "alejandro-g-inarritu"
imdb_id: "nm0327944"
tmdb_id: 223
wikidata_id: "Q55215"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "15 August 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-10-02T21:50:40.345262+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alejandro González Iñárritu

## Identity

Alejandro González Iñárritu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alejandro-g-inarritu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alejandro-g-inarritu
- **IMDb ID:** nm0327944
- **TMDB ID:** 223
- **Wikidata ID:** Q55215
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/223

Director and writer. Born 15 August 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 15 August 1963, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Active:** 1988–present
- **Also known as:** Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alejandro Innaritu, 艾力謝路高沙里斯依拿力圖
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 10: 8 directing, 2 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Guillermo Arriaga](https://film.one/person/guillermo-arriaga.md), [Mary Parent](https://film.one/person/mary-parent.md), [Nicolás Giacobone](https://film.one/person/nicolas-giacobone.md), [Alexander Dinelaris Jr.](https://film.one/person/alexander-dinelaris.md), [Armando Bo](https://film.one/person/armando-bo.md), [James W. Skotchdopole](https://film.one/person/james-w-skotchdopole.md), [Jon Kilik](https://film.one/person/jon-kilik.md), [Steve Golin](https://film.one/person/steve-golin.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscars (4 won · 3 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 8 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (4), 2010s 74 (4), 2020s 54 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 68 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 8, Comedy 2, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Western 1
- **Screen time:** 16 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $878m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/223

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)*](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md) (82), [*The Revenant*](https://film.one/film/the-revenant.md) (74)
- **Apple TV:** [*Amores Perros*](https://film.one/film/amores-perros.md) (85)
- **Hulu:** [*Babel*](https://film.one/film/babel.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Alejandro González Iñárritu

> Alejandro G. Iñárritu makes distress feel immediate, through tangled stories and restless camerawork. We value his force and ambition, most of all in *Amores Perros*, while sometimes wishing he would ask less of our patience.

In *Amores Perros* (2000), a car crash connects three stories in Mexico City, carrying us across a sharp divide in wealth. Iñárritu makes each story urgent enough that waiting for the connections becomes a secondary pleasure. The collision lets him move between lives that money usually keeps apart. His feature debut remains our clearest reason to recommend him: gripping, often upsetting, and full of people worth following even when the plotting strains belief.

Guillermo Arriaga’s screenplay gives love, violence and bad decisions equal room, and the performances make its contrivances worth accepting. Luis Carballar, Iñárritu and Fernando Pérez Unda edit with a firm sense of when to switch stories and when to stay put. The complicated construction is easy to follow without feeling mechanical, and across 154 minutes we rarely want it to hurry up. We were upset by the graphic cruelty to dogs in *Amores Perros*.

*21 Grams* (2003) and *Babel* (2006) extended that early interest in fractured, interconnected stories, with *Babel* taking it across cultures and languages. After the collaboration with Arriaga ended, *Biutiful* (2010) began another phase. By *Birdman* (2014), the long-take style put sustained camera movement at the centre of the experience. *The Revenant* (2015) combined survival drama with demanding location shooting. The methods change, but he keeps asking us to spend a long time under pressure.

Our reservation is how insistently he asks: suffering can become repetitive, and conspicuous technique can make us notice the director when we should be attending to the character. *Bardo* (2022), his semi-autobiographical exploration of identity and memory, tests patience in a way the busy storytelling of *Amores Perros* rarely does. That earlier film has flaws we can name and performances that persuade us to accept them. Start there, provided the warning about cruelty to dogs is one you can live with.

## Biography

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He was born on 15 August 1963 in Mexico City. His feature directorial debut was *Amores Perros* (2000), on which he also served as producer and co-editor.

Iñárritu is known for films including *21 Grams* (2003), *Babel* (2006), *Biutiful* (2010), *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014) and *The Revenant* (2015). For *Birdman* he won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay; he won a further Oscar for directing *The Revenant*. He is the third director to win consecutive Best Director Oscars.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, britannica.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (10)

### Directed (8) — the average rests on these

- *Digger* (2026), Fi1m 52, Producer, Screenplay, Story, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/digger.md)
- *Flesh and Sand* (2017), Fi1m 78, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/flesh-and-sand.md)
- *The Revenant* (2015), Fi1m 74, Director, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-revenant.md)
- *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), Fi1m 82, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md)
- *Biutiful* (2010), Fi1m 63, Producer, Writer, Director, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/biutiful.md)
- *Babel* (2006), Fi1m 64, Idea, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/babel.md)
- *21 Grams* (2003), Fi1m 72, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/21-grams.md)
- *Amores Perros* (2000), Fi1m 85, Director, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/amores-perros.md)

### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Disclaimer* (2024), Fi1m 56, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/tv/disclaimer.md)
- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Fi1m 87, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Digger* (2026), Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/digger.md)
- *Frankenstein* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/frankenstein.md)
- *Sueño Perro* (2025), Director
- *Disclaimer* (2024), series, Thanks — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/tv/disclaimer.md)
- *Bosé renacido* (2023), series, Actor
- *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), Writer, Editor, Original Music Composer, Director, Producer
- *Shake Your Cares Away* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Gaze of the Sea* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Shape of Water* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shape-of-water.md)
- *Flesh and Sand* (2017), Director, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/flesh-and-sand.md)
- *The Revenant* (2015), Director, Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-revenant.md)
- *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md)
- *Gravity* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)
- *Naran Ja* (2012), Director
- *The Last Elvis* (2012), Associate Producer
- *Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes* (2011), Director
- *Biutiful* (2010), Director, Producer, Writer, Story — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/biutiful.md)
- *Mother and Child* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Rudo & Cursi* (2008), Producer
- *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Common Ground: Under Construction Notes* (2007), Camera Operator
- *Year of the Nail* (2007), Thanks
- *Babel* (2006), Director, Producer, Idea — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/babel.md)
- *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/pans-labyrinth.md)
- *Toro Negro* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Nine Lives* (2005), Executive Producer
- *21 Grams* (2003), Director, Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/21-grams.md)
- *September 11* (2002), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)
- *Powder Keg* (2001), Director, Writer, Editor
- *The Hire* (2001), series, Writer, Director
- *Amores Perros* (2000), Director, Producer, Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/amores-perros.md)
- *Detras del dinero* (1996), Director
- *The Ringer* (1996), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Alejandro González Iñárritu (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Garra de tigre* (1989), Music
- *The Marked Hour* (1988), series, Director, Writer
- *Furia en la sangre* (1988), as Compositor
- *Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza* (1987), as Compositor
- *Fiera solitaria* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *El Macho in a Women's Prison* (1986), as Compositor
- *Porto Rico*, Executive Producer
- *Write the Future*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Alejandro González Iñárritu](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-622b6f07d6d1.jpg) Alejandro González Iñárritu — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/MKr386800_Alejandro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu_%28Amores_Perros%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr386800_Alejandro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu_%28Amores_Perros%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-8dd3b5eb0949.jpg) Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%281_of_7%29_%2852415280171%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%281_of_7%29_%2852415280171%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-4526e4fc36cc.jpg) Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%282_of_7%29_%2852415561014%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%282_of_7%29_%2852415561014%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-e138dfcbaf25.jpg) Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%281_of_7%29_%2852415280171%29.jpg/1280px-AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%281_of_7%29_%2852415280171%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro González Iñárritu](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-46225e626cdb.jpg) Alejandro González Iñárritu — Image via TMDB
- ![Alejandro González Iñárritu](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-d240ecb29f9b.jpg) Alejandro González Iñárritu — Image via TMDB
- ![Alejandro González Iñárritu](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-e8ed2dc66702.jpg) Alejandro González Iñárritu — Image via TMDB
- ![Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-558347262ccf.jpg) Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%286_of_7%29_%2852415279726%29.jpg/1280px-AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%286_of_7%29_%2852415279726%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/96853/gallery-e9c39e351b0b.jpg) Alejandro G. Inarritu - BFI Southbank - Sunday 9th October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%283_of_7%29_%2852415560959%29.jpg/1280px-AlejandroInarrituBFI091022_%283_of_7%29_%2852415560959%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 4 won, 3 nominated

- 2016: Best Director (won), for *The Revenant*
- 2016: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Revenant*
- 2015: Best Director (won), for *Birdman*
- 2015: Best Picture (won), for *Birdman*
- 2015: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Birdman*
- 2007: Best Picture (nominated), for *Babel*
- 2007: Best Director (nominated), for *Babel*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 2016: Best Direction (won), for *The Revenant*

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 2006: Cannes Best Director Award (won), for *Babel*

### Other awards — 7 won, 1 nominated

- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico 2019: Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (won)
- Special Achievement Academy Award 2018: Special Achievement Academy Award (won), for *Flesh and Sand*
- César Award 2016: César Award (won)
- AACTA International Award for Best Direction 2015: AACTA International Award for Best Direction (won), for *Birdman*
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 2015: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *The Revenant*
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film 2015: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film (won), for *Birdman*
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 2014: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *Birdman*
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film 2003: European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (nominated), for *21 Grams*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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