Alejandro Amenábar
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- March 31, 1972, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Movies
- 17
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas.
Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2026 | Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente | |
| 2014 | Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' | Self |
| 2009 | Spanish Movie | Reflejo espejo |
| 2006 | Spectre | Man Looking at Statue (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Nobody Knows Anybody | |
| 1995 | Luna | Waiter |
| 1992 | Himenóptero | Bosco |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | The Captive | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2019 | While at War | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 2015 | Regression | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2009 | Agora | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | The Sea Inside | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2001 | The Others | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Open Your Eyes | Director, Screenplay |
| 1996 | Thesis | Director, Screenplay |
| 1995 | Luna | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | Himenóptero | Director, Writer |
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