Alejandro Amenábar

Alejandro Amenábar

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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. Among other honors, he has won nine Goyas and two European Film Awards and one Academy Award. He has written (or co-written) the screenplays to all six of his films and composed almost all of their soundtracks.

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Alejandro Amenábar was born on Friday, 31 March 1972 in Santiago, RM. He is best known as a director. Amenábar's country of citizenship (nationality) is Spanish. Alejandro Amenábar is 52 years old and his zodiac star sign is Aries.

You can find people similar to Alejandro Amenábar by visiting our lists LGBT entertainers from Spain and Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners.

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Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
  • He didn't finish his university studies due to one 4th grade subject, "Film writing". The last name of the professor who kept failing him is Castro, and that also the last name of the evil professor in his first long movie, Tesis (1996). Amenábar claims he used the last name inadvertedly at first, it was the university people who noticed the coincidence and asked him to change it. In the end he decided not to, although in the scripts he did write a different name, Gálvez. Incidentally, he has done the script writing in all of his movies so far.
  • He's a great collector of soundtracks.
  • Abre los ojos (1997) is his "remake" of Vertigo (1958), by Hitchcock. In fact, when the character of Sofia appears after hitting Cesar with a jar, it's the same shot of Kim Novak in Vertigo when she appears from the bathroom in the hotel - with green lights
  • After his film Mar adentro (2004/I), he received a congratulation's letter from Steven Spielberg, one of Amenabar's favorites directors.
  • Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.

Alejandro Amenábar is known for his role in the film Regression (2015) as producer.

He is also known for his role in the TV special The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) as Self - Winner.

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