Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu

The Profile

Mexican filmmaker known for multi-strand dramas and technically audacious works. He debuted with Amores perros and later won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Director for Birdman and The Revenant.

Early features were written with Guillermo Arriaga (Amores perros, 21 Grammi, Babel). Birdman is famed for its long-take illusion, while Emmanuel Lubezki shot both Birdman and The Revenant. Iñárritu won Best Director Oscars for 2014 (Birdman) and 2015 (The Revenant); Birdman also won Best Picture and Original Screenplay.

DeBaser’s reviews trace Iñárritu’s path from the raw shock of Amores perros and the global angst of Babel to Birdman’s virtuosic long-take high-wire act and The Revenant’s stark survival spectacle. Praise centers on realism, technical craft, and performances (Bardem, Keaton, DiCaprio), while dissent flags rhetoric, pretension, and thin characterization in some works. Arriaga’s early collaborations and Lubezki’s cinematography loom large.