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Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards, Special Achievement Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Directors Guild of America Awards. His most notable films include Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). Amores Perros (2000), and Biutiful (2010) each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams(2003) and Babel (2006). For Birdman (2014), he won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The following year, he was awarded Best Director for The Revenant (2015), making him the third director to win back-to-back after John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Iñárritu was later awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (2017). Iñárritu became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the Academy Awards' history and the first to win for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. He was the first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at Cannes, and the first to win a DGA Award for Outstanding Directing. In 2019, Iñárritu became the first Latin American to serve as jury president for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Iñárritu and Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are known in the film industry as "The Three Amigos." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cienfuegos is an epic biographical drama that captures the spirit, idealism, and turmoil of the Cuban Revolution through the life of Camilo Cienfuegos, the iconic yet enigmatic rebel who won the hearts of a nation. Known for his humility, humor, and unshakable devotion to justice, Camilo rose to become one of Fidel Castro’s most trusted commanders, his influence rivaled only by that of Fidel himself. But while Castro and Guevara became international icons, Cienfuegos' life remains largely unsung beyond Cuba. The story follows Camilo from his early days as a young man troubled by poverty, through his involvement in the struggle against Batista’s oppressive regime, to his legendary role in leading troops at the Battle of Yaguajay, where his strategic brilliance and unrelenting courage turned the tide of the revolution. Against the backdrop of political tensions and ethical dilemmas, the film explores Camilo’s relationships, his philosophical convictions, and the conflicts he faced as he balanced the revolution's ideals with its often brutal realities.
