List of awards and nominations received by Alejandro González Iñárritu

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Award
Wins
Nominations
Academy Awards
47
BAFTA Awards
37
AACTA Awards
33
Golden Globes
47
DGA Awards
34
PGA Awards
13
Saturn Award
03
Independent Spirit Awards
24

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter Alejandro González Iñárritu. His filmography comprises feature films, short films, television and commercials. González Iñárritu has been recognized with multiple awards for his films, including four Academy Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, three BAFTA Awards, three AACTA Awards, three Golden Globe Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, two American Film Institute Awards, and three Cannes Film Festival awards.

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González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, and the first to win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. [1] [2] His six feature films – Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), and The Revenant (2015) – received a total of 45 Academy Award nominations. [3] Amores perros and Biutiful received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, with Amores perros winning the BAFTA Award. In 2015, González Iñárritu won the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directing, and the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for Birdman, becoming the first Mexican to win three Oscars. [4] In 2016, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Revenant , marking the first time in 65 years that a director has won the award in two consecutive years. Iñárritu is the third director to accomplish this feat. [5]

In 2006, González Iñárritu was honored at the Gotham Awards' World Cinema Tribute, alongside fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. [6] In June 2015, González Iñárritu received the Sundance Institute's Vanguard Leadership Award for the "originality and independent spirit" of his films. [7] In November 2015, he was honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at its Art + Film Gala. [8]

Major associations

Academy Awards

Academy Awards
YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2007 Best Picture Babel Nominated [3]
Best Director Nominated
2015 Best Picture Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Won [3]
Best DirectorWon
Best Original Screenplay Won
2016 Best Picture The Revenant Nominated [3]
Best DirectorWon
2018 Special Achievement Academy Award Flesh and Sand Recipient [3]

British Academy Film Awards

British Academy Film Awards
YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2007 Best Film Babel Nominated [9]
Best Direction Nominated
2015 Best Film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Nominated [9]
Best DirectionNominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2016 Best Film The Revenant Won [9]
Best DirectionWon

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards
YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2007 Best Motion Picture – Drama Babel Won [10]
Best Director Nominated
2015 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Nominated [10]
Best DirectorNominated
Best Screenplay Won
2016 Best Motion Picture – Drama The Revenant Won [10]
Best DirectorWon

Industry awards

AACTA Awards

AACTA International Awards
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Film Won [11]
Best Direction Won
Best Screenplay Won

American Film Institute

American Film Institute
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2000 Amores perros Audience Award – Best Feature Film Won [12]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Movie of the Year Won [13]

Directors Guild of America Awards

Directors Guild of America Award
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2007 Babel Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Nominated [14]
2013 Best Job Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials Won [14]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Won [14]
2016 The Revenant Won [15]

Independent Spirit Awards

Independent Spirit Awards
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2002 Amores perros Best Foreign Film Nominated [16]
2004 21 Grams Special Distinction Award Won [17]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Film Won [18]
Best Director Nominated

National Board of Review

National Board of Review
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2002 Amores perros Best Foreign Language Film Won [19]
Top Foreign Films Won
2003 21 Grams Top 10 Films Won [20]
2007 Babel Won [21]
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Won [22]

Producers Guild of America Awards

Producers Guild of America Award
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2007 Babel Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture Nominated [23]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Won [24]
2016 The Revenant Nominated [25]

Satellite Awards

Satellite Awards
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Film Won [26]
Best Director Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2016 The Revenant Best Film Nominated [27]
Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated

Saturn Award

Saturn Award
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Fantasy Film Nominated
Best Director Nominated
2016 The Revenant Best Action or Adventure Film Nominated

Film festival awards

Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2000 Amores perros Critics Week Grand Prize Won [28]
2006 Babel Palme d'Or Nominated [29]
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Won [30]
Best Director Won [31]
2010 Biutiful Palme d'Or Nominated [32]

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Palm Springs International Film Festival
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2000 Amores perros FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film Won [33]
2006 Babel Director of the Year Won [33]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Won [33]

Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2002 11'09"01 September 11 UNESCO Award Won [34]
2003 21 Grams Golden Lion Nominated [35]
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Nominated [36]
2022 Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Nominated [37]

Critics awards

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Critics' Choice Movie Awards
(Broadcast Film Critics Association Award)
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2011 Biutiful Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [38]
2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Director Nominated [39]
Best Original Screenplay Won
2016 The Revenant Best Director Nominated [40]
2022 Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [41]

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Los Angeles Film Critics Association
YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Screenplay Runner-up [42]

See also

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