Alejandro G. Iñárritu
In 2016, Alejandro G. Iñárritu found himself walking up to the Oscars stage to pick up the best director award for the second time in two years. "I can't believe this is happening," he said.
With his consecutive wins for "Birdman" and "The Revenant" he had become one of only three...
Alejandro G. Iñárritu left Mexico with his family on Sept. 1, 2001. They'd decided to move to Los Angeles for one year. But one turned into 21. In Los Angeles, Iñárritu's filmmaking career flourished: He won five Oscars, two for directing and one for best picture, and worked with many of the top...
January 15, 2016 The Revenant landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards. The strong showing for The Revenant sets director Alejandro Inarritu for a possible back-to-back win following his sweep for...
Filmmaker Agnes Varda danced with Angelina Jolie. Donald Sutherland wanted to thank the characters he's played. Writer-director Charles Burnett said getting an Oscar eases the sting of a teacher's heartless words decades ago. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu dedicated his award to immigrants...
Underscoring that VR has indeed arrived is the most recent high-profile recognition of its value and artistry, coming from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors which voted to present a Special Award--an Oscar statuette--to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to present a Special Award--an Oscar® statuette--to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and...
You walk along a high metal fence that once divided Arizona and Mexico and into a small holding cell where you are asked to take off your shoes and socks. All around you are the abandoned shoes of migrants who have been arrested by the border patrol. When a red light flashes, you enter a large...
The Cannes Film Festival, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, has historically been about as fond of change as day-old baguettes.
As much as its screens light up with the world's most daring, adventurous cinema, the French Riviera festival protects its traditions more closely...
Look for two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman) to make a major splash at next month’s Cannes Film Festival with his first foray into virtual reality, a short film titled Carne y Arena (Meat and Sand), reported to be about...
SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, April 4, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s April print issue (including extended versions of some stories)....