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ALEJANDRO

GONZÁLEZ Iñárritu

- THE MAJOR FILMMAKER OF THE MOMENT -

I n 2015, Alejandro González competition, because for someone
Iñárritu took home the Oscar to win, someone has to lose. But
for Best Picture, as well as the paradox is that true art can’t be
Best Director and Best Original compared, can’t be labeled, can’t be
Screenplay for the movie Birdman. defeated. My work and the work of my
This groundbreaking comedy-drama fellow nominees will be judged only by
film takes a stunning look at fame and time.”
a fading star that’s presented as though Previously González Iñárritu was
the entire movie were shot in a single nominated for Amores Perros and
take. González Iñárritu produced Biutiful in the foreign language
grand, spectacular, star-powered category and for director and producer
cinema – a cosmological blockbuster – of Babel. The Revenant, which he co-
that makes us ask again what cinema wrote with Mark L. Smith and starring
can do and can be. Leonardo DiCaprio will be released
worldwide in 2016.
Collecting the award for Best Picture,
González Iñárritu said: “Ego loves

“Birdman came from a very
beautiful side of me, from a
part of honesty and surrender
about things.”
- Alejandro González Iñárritu

Photo: Courtesy Daniel Bergueron

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