Alejandro Amenábar

Born in March 31st, 1972

From Santiago de Chile, Chile

Alejandro Amenábar Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro Amenábar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alejandro Amenábar Movies

Regression Poster
February 5, 2016
Agora Poster
October 9, 2009
Spectre Poster
August 19, 2008
The Sea Inside Poster
December 9, 2004
Vanilla Sky Poster
December 10, 2001
The Others Poster
August 2, 2001
Butterfly Poster
June 16, 2000

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