Alejandro González Iñárritu

Mexican film director

6.44body-of-work score · ranked #165 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: August 15, 1963 · Mexico City
Nationality: Mexico, Spain
Work: film director, screenwriter, film producer, composer
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
Birdman Must-See #266
2014 · United States · comedy, drama
Oscar Best Picture winner 2014 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2015 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #8
2.364 citations
2
The Revenant
2015 · United States · western, adventure, thriller
BAFTA Best Film winner 2016 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2015
1.452 citations
3
Amores perros
2000 · Mexico · drama, thriller
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2002 #10 · Film Comment year-end poll 2001 #16 · Empire 500 (2008) #492
1.297 citations
4
Babel
2006 · United States / Mexico / France · drama
Oscar Best Picture nominee 2006 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2007 #5 · Ebert's annual top 10 2006 #9
1.124 citations
5
21 Grams
2003 · United States · drama, crime
Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #24
0.221 citation

Complete filmography

All 12 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1995Detrás del dinero
2000Amores perros
2001Powder Keg
200211'09"01 September 11
200321 Grams
2006Babel
2007To Each His Own Cinema
2010Biutiful
2014Birdman
2015The Revenant
2017Flesh and Sand
2022Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths