Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is one of the best directors, producers, and screenwriters in the entertainment industries. After all, he is not just the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Director in 2007 but also the winner of not one, not two, not three, but four Oscars so far, which happen to include two Oscars for Best Director in 2014 and 2015.
Here are five things that you may or may not have known about Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu:
Spent Some Time on a Cargo Ship
At the age of seventeen, Inarritu headed onto a cargo ship, where he worked as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean to visit countries situated throughout both Africa and Europe. As a result, a lot of his movies are set in the places that he visited during this time, which have provided him with plenty of inspiration over the course of his career.
Spent Some Time as a Radio Host
Inarritu has drawn influence from more than just movies. In fact, he has outright stated that he has been more influenced by music than by movies, which could have something to do with the fact that he actually spent some time as a radio host for a rock radio station after he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1984 before becoming something much more. By 1988, Inarritu was the director of the radio station, which resulted in its ascension to becoming the number one radio station in the whole of Mexico.
Babel Was Not His First Movie to Use Multiple Interconnected Stories
Babel is memorable for its use of four interconnected stories, but it is interesting to note that it was not the first time that Inarritu had chosen to make a movie consisting of such. In 1999, he made Amores Perros, which consisted of three interconnected stories set in Mexico City. Said movie went on to win the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, though it failed to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film that it was nominated for.
Has Done a Fair Amount of Advertising Work
It is interesting to note that Inarritu has done a fair amount of advertising work for a number of famous companies over the course of his career. For example, there was a football-themed commercial for Nike for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 as well as the “Best Job” commercial for Protor and Gamble for the Summer Olympics in 2012. Unsurprisingly, Inarritu’s advertising work was received just as well as the rest of his work, which is why he has won a number of advertising awards as well.
One of the Three Amigos of Cinema
Inarritu is friends with both Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro, which should be familiar to movie goers as the directors behind some of the most beloved movies of recent times. For example, Cuaron directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in addition to Children of Men and Gravity, while del Toro directed Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Hellboy II, and Pacific Rim. Together, the three men are known as the Three Amigos of Cinema for their friendship as well as their shared country of origin.
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