Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
August 15, 1963 | Mexico City, Mexico
Age / 年齢
61 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer
映画監督、脚本家、プロデューサー
Nationality / 国籍
Mexican (メキシコ)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Alejandro González Iñárritu is the most formally ambitious and philosophically serious Mexican director in international cinema over the past two decades. His body of work, spanning seven feature films, explores the profound themes of mortality, guilt, and the moral interconnections of human life. From the raw energy of his debut Amores perros to the complex architecture of Babel—which uses interlocking stories to show how our actions ripple beyond our awareness—his films are masterclasses in narrative precision. Birdman showcased his formal ingenuity through its seamless single-take illusion, while The Revenant pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling by utilizing only natural light and actual wilderness to explore the human spirit. His back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Director are a fitting institutional confirmation of an artist whose excellence has been clear since the moment he first arrived on the global stage.
[日本語] アレハンドロ・ゴンサレス・イニャリトゥは、過去20年の国際映画界において、最も形式的な野心と哲学的な真摯さを兼ね備えたメキシコ人監督です。7本の長編映画を通じて、彼は死や罪悪感、そして人間同士の道徳的な繋がりという深遠なテーマを追求し続けてきました。鮮烈なデビュー作『アモーレス・ペロス』から、個人の行動が自らの預かり知らぬところで世界に波及していく様を描いた『バベル』に至るまで、その精緻な物語構成は唯一無二の哲学的な深みを持っています。全編ワンカットに見える魔法のような演出で演劇的意識を解剖した『バードマン』、そして自然光と過酷な荒野での撮影にこだわり、人間の精神性を視覚化した『レヴェナント：蘇えりし者』。2年連続のアカデミー賞監督賞受賞という快挙は、デビューの瞬間から批評家たちを驚かせ続けてきた、その比類なき卓越性が世界的に証明された結果にほかなりません。
Filmography | 監督作品
Feature Films as Director (監督長編作品)
|
Year |
Title (English / Japanese) |
Language |
Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2000 |
Amores perros / アモーレス・ペロス |
Spanish |
Oscar nom. Best Foreign Language Film 🌟 BAFTA Best Film Not in English 🏆 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize 🏆 / Mexico City / Car accident / Three interlocking stories / Debut landmark |
|
2003 |
21 Grams / 21グラム |
English |
Oscar nom. Best Actor (Sean Penn) 🌟 Oscar nom. Best Actress (Naomi Watts) 🌟 / Organ transplant / Memphis / Benicio del Toro / Non-linear mastery |
|
2006 |
Babel / バベル |
Multi-language |
Oscar nom. Best Picture 🌟 Oscar nom. Best Director 🌟 Cannes Best Director 🏆 Oscar nom. Best Supporting Actress ×2 (Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza) 🌟 / Morocco, Mexico, Japan, USA / Brad Pitt / Cate Blanchett / Global ensemble peak |
|
2010 |
Biutiful / BIUTIFUL |
Spanish |
Cannes Best Actor (Javier Bardem) 🏆 Oscar nom. Best Actor (Javier Bardem) 🌟 Oscar nom. Best Foreign Language Film 🌟 / Barcelona / Terminal cancer / Most formally stripped-down / Most emotionally devastating |
|
2014 |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) / バードマン あるいは（無知がもたらす予期せぬ奇跡） |
English |
Oscar Best Picture 🏆 Oscar Best Director 🏆 Oscar Best Original Screenplay 🏆 Oscar Best Cinematography (Lubezki) 🏆 / Michael Keaton / Emma Stone / Edward Norton / Naomi Watts / Single-take illusion / Broadway / Career transformation |
|
2015 |
The Revenant / レヴェナント：蘇えりし者 |
English |
Oscar Best Director 🏆 (2nd consecutive) Oscar Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) 🏆 Oscar Best Cinematography (Lubezki) 🏆 / Natural light / Hugh Glass / Bear attack / Frontier survival / 2 consecutive Oscar wins |
|
2022 |
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths / バルド、偽りの記録と少数の真実 |
Spanish |
Venice Silver Lion — Best Direction 🏆 / Semi-autobiographical / Mexican diaspora / Surrealism / Memory and identity |
Short Films and Other Work
|
Year |
Title |
Note |
|---|---|---|
|
2007 |
Anna (segment of To Each His Own Cinema) |
Cannes 60th anniversary anthology |
|
2012 |
7 Days in Havana (segment) |
Omnibus film |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)
Winner: 2 (consecutive) 🏆🏆 — only the third director in Academy history to win Best Director in consecutive years
- Best Director – Birdman (2015) 🏆
- Best Director – The Revenant (2016) 🏆
Producer wins:
- Best Picture – Birdman (2015) 🏆
Nominated:
- Best Director – Babel (2007) 🌟
- Best Picture (as producer) – Babel (2007) 🌟
Cannes Film Festival (カンヌ映画祭)
- Best Director – Babel (2006) 🏆
- Critics’ Week Grand Prize – Amores perros (2000) 🏆
Venice Film Festival (ヴェネツィア国際映画祭)
- Silver Lion — Best Direction – Bardo (2022) 🏆
BAFTA Awards
- Best Film Not in the English Language – Amores perros (2001) 🏆
- Best Direction – Birdman (2015) 🏆
- Best Direction – The Revenant (2016) 🏆
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures – Birdman (2015) 🏆
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures – The Revenant (2016) 🏆
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Director – Birdman (2015) 🏆
- Best Director – The Revenant (2016) 🏆
- Best Motion Picture — Drama – The Revenant (2016) 🏆
Mexican Film Awards (Ariel Awards)
- Multiple Ariel Awards across career 🏆
- Recognized consistently as the most important Mexican director of his generation 🏆
Box Office Achievements | 興行成績
|
Film |
Budget |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|
|
The Revenant (2015) |
$135M |
$533.0 million |
|
Babel (2006) |
$25M |
$135.3 million |
|
Birdman (2014) |
$18M |
$103.2 million |
|
21 Grams (2003) |
$20M |
$60.3 million |
|
Biutiful (2010) |
$14M |
$19.3 million |
|
Amores perros (2000) |
$2M |
$20.9 million |
