- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- March 31, 1972
- Place of Birth
- Santiago de Chile, Chile
Alejandro Amenábar
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 Mate…
Filmography
movieThe Captive
2025 · Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Producer
tvLa Revuelta
2024 · Self - Guest
tvLa Fortuna
2021 · Director, Writer, Creator
movieWhile at War
2019 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
movieDanielle
2017 · Director, Writer
movieRegression
2015 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
movieVale
2015 · Director, Screenplay
Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
movieTouching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
2014 · Self
movieCousinhood
2011 · Thanks
movieSpanish Movie
2009 · Reflejo espejo
movieAgora
2009 · Director, Writer
movieSpectre
2006 · Man Looking at Statue (uncredited)
tvEl hormiguero
2006 · Self - Guest
movieThe Sea Inside
2004 · Producer, Director, Original Music Composer, Editor, Writer
tvKulturplatz
2004 · Self
movieVanilla Sky
2001 · Original Film Writer
movieThe Others
2001 · Original Music Composer, Writer, Director
movieNobody Knows Anybody
1999 · , Original Music Composer
movieButterfly
1999 · Music
movieAllanamiento de morada
1998 · Music
movieOpen Your Eyes
1997 · Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer
movieThesis
1996 · Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Director, Associate Producer, Story
tvLo + plus
1995 · Self - Guest
movieLuna
1995 · Waiter, Original Music Composer, Writer, Director
movieHimenóptero
1992 · Bosco, Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Editor