Alejandro Amenábar

history

| birthplace = Santiago, Chile | birthname = Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos | othername = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter & composer | spouse = | yearsactive = 1992 - present }} Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 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.

Filmography

Shorts

Full length films

Other works

Future projects

Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ãgora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. »Alejandro Amenábar inicia rodaje de uno de sus proyectos más ambiciosos | Emol.com The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of a slave who falls in love with his master, philosophy professor Hypatia of Alexandria. Amenábar was actually approached to direct the live action film Dragonball Evolution but turned it down.»DragonBall Live Action Movie

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