Name
Alejandro Amenábar
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1972-03-31 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Biography
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas.
Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express.
Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.
Known For
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Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Ni...
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David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he b...
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Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bach...
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Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a divi...
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Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses...
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In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pir...
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Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic c...
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Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish...
- 2014 Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' as Self
- 1995 Luna as Waiter
- 1992 Himenóptero as Bosco
- 2006 Spectre as Man Looking at Statue (uncredited)
- 2009 Spanish Movie as Reflejo espejo
- 1999 Nobody Knows Anybody
- 1995 Lo + plus ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2004 Kulturplatz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 La Revuelta ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2006 El hormiguero ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
