Alejandro Amenábar

Alejandro Amenábar

Born: March 31, 1972
in Santiago de Chile, Chile
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.

Movies for Alejandro Amenábar...

Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
Title: Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
Character: Self
Released: June 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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Spanish Movie
Title: Spanish Movie
Character: Reflejo espejo
Released: December 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Grandes dosis de humor, ingeniosos guiños a nuestro cine patrio más reciente, un elenco artístico altamente ligado a la comedia y una elevada reserva de sorpresas constituyen los ingredientes de esta disparatada comedia: Spanish Movie.
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Spectre
Title: Spectre
Character: Man Looking at Statue (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
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Nadie conoce a nadie
Title: Nadie conoce a nadie
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Simón is an aspiring novelist who makes a living designing crossword puzzles for a newspaper. One day he receives a threatening message instructing him to include the word "adversary" in a puzzle as Seville gets hit by a series of violent attacks.
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Luna
Title: Luna
Character: Waiter
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
An early short by Alejandro Amenábar.
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Himenóptero
Title: Himenóptero
Character: Bosco
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie