Alejandro Amenábar
Writing
- Born
- March 31, 1972 (age 54) · 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.
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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
The Others
August 2, 2001
Vanilla Sky
December 14, 2001
Regression
October 1, 2015
Agora
May 17, 2009
Open Your Eyes
December 19, 1997
The Sea Inside
September 3, 2004
Thesis
April 11, 1996
While at War
September 27, 2019
Butterfly
September 24, 1999
The Captive
September 12, 2025
Nobody Knows Anybody
November 26, 1999
Himenóptero
January 1, 1992
Behind the camera15
- 2025The Captive Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Producer
- 2019While at War Director, Producer, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
- 2015Regression Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2015Vale Director
- 2009Agora Director, Writer
- 2004The Sea Inside Director, Producer, Original Music Composer, Editor, Writer
- 2001Vanilla Sky Original Film Writer
- 2001The Others Director, Original Music Composer, Writer
- 1999Nobody Knows Anybody Original Music Composer
- 1999