Released album “El Cautivo”.
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Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya Awards—including Best Director for his 2001 film The Others—and two European Film Awards among other honors; he also accepted an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of Spain for The Sea Inside. He has written the screenplays to all seven of his films and compose…
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entertainment · Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer · film director · screenwriter · actor · composer · film producer · film editor · film score composer · film actor · also Alejandro Amenábar, Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos, Alejandro Amenabar, Alejandro Fernando Amenabar Cantos, Amenábar
Born 31 March 1972 · Q274070
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2025· 2 entries
Collider: Alejandro Amenabar
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2024· 1 entry
Variety: Alejandro Amenábar’s Miguel de Cervantes Origin Story ‘The Captive’ to Be Launched at European Film Market by Film Constellation (EXCLUSIVE)
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2020· 1 entry
Yahoo: Federation Entertainment Acquires Alejandro Amenabar’s ‘Thesis’ for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Mientras dure la guerra”.
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2015· 1 entry
With the thriller Regression, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson
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2009· 1 entry
And with a budget of 50 million euros, it was the most expensive Spanish film in history until Society of the Snow
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2008· 1 entry
Amenábar released his next film, called Mists of Time; however he later changed the name to Agora
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Time Machine Award (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film for The Sea Inside (2005).
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for The Sea Inside (2004).
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Released album “Mar adentro”.
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Amenábar released The Sea Inside, a real life-story about a quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), which addressed issues such as euthanasia, abortion, or “the right to a dignified life
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “The Others (Music From the Dimension Motion Picture)”.
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Won eight Goyas, including the Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for best European Film Movie
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Nadie Conoce a Nadie”.
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Released album “La Lengua de las Mariposas”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Abre los Ojos (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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Released album “Abre los ojos”.
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Released album “Tesis”.
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Made Abre Los Ojos, a science fiction movie that had notable success at international festivals such as Berlin and Tokyo
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-03-31.
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