Known For
Writing
Born
Mar 31, 1972
Place of Birth
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Credits
24 titles
Alejandro Amenábar
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
Filmography
Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente
The Captive
Director
La Revuelta
Self - Guest
La Fortuna
Director
While at War
Director
Regression
Screenplay
Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
Self
Cousinhood
Thanks
Spanish Movie
Reflejo espejo
Agora
Director
Spectre
Man Looking at Statue (uncredited)
El hormiguero
Self - Guest
The Sea Inside
Producer
Kulturplatz
Self
Vanilla Sky
Original Film Writer
The Others
Original Music Composer
Nobody Knows Anybody
Butterfly
Music
Allanamiento de morada
Music
Open Your Eyes
Screenplay
Thesis
Screenplay
Lo + plus
Self - Guest
Luna
Waiter
Himenóptero
Bosco