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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.
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Filmography
all 23
Movies 22
Director 11
self 3
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
Writer 1
Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror (2022)
La Fortuna (2021)
While at War (2019)
Danielle (2017)
Regression (2015)
Vale (2015)
Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' (2014)
For the Good of Others (2010)
Spanish Movie (2009)
Viva la muerte! Autopsie du nouveau cinéma fantastique espagnol (2009)
Agora (2009)
Spectre (2006)
The Sea Inside (2004)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Others (2001)
Nadie conoce a nadie (1999)
Butterfly (1999)
Allanamiento de morada (1998)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Thesis (1996)
Luna (1995)
Himenóptero (1992)
The Captive
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1972-03-31 (51 years old)
Birth PlaceSantiago, Chile
Religionatheism
CitizenshipsSpain
AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, European Film Award for Best Cinematographer
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