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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Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad...
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David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins fall...
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Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, ha...
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Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...
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Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly...
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Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her fathe...
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Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While at War (2019) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 2 | Regression (2015) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 3 | Vale (2015) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 4 | Agora (2009) | Director / Writer | 7.4 | |
| 5 | Spanish Movie (2009) | Reflejo espejo | 4 | |
| 6 | The Sea Inside (2004) Oscars 2005 | Director / Writer | 7.8 | |
| 7 | Vanilla Sky (2001) Oscars 2002 | Director / Writer | 6.6 | |
| 8 | The Others (2001) | Director / Writer | 7.4 | |
| 9 | Open Your Eyes (1997) | Director / Writer | 7.1 | |
| 10 | Thesis (1996) | Director / Writer | 7 |
