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Alejandro Amenábar
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Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Spanish and Chilean film director, screenwriter, actor, and composer. Born on March 31, 1972, in Santiago, he holds citizenship in both Spain and Chile. He studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and began his professional work period in 1992. Amenábar speaks Spanish and is identified as a male.
His notable works include *Tesis* and *Los otros*. He has received the Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film and the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer. Additionally, he has been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, and the People's Choice Award for Best European Film. His musical output is categorized under contemporary classical, soundtrack, and instrumental genres.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1972
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Los otros
- Tesis
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Film & TV
Writing · Santiago de Chile, Chile
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…
Known for
- La Revuelta — Self - Guest2024
- Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' — Self2014
- Spanish Movie — Reflejo espejo2009
- Spectre — Man Looking at Statue (uncredited)2006
- El hormiguero — Self - Guest2006
- Kulturplatz — Self2004
- Nobody Knows Anybody1999
- Luna — Waiter1995
- Lo + plus — Self - Guest1995
- Himenóptero — Bosco1992
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972 in Santiago, Chile) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1972, 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-nominated score for José
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,563x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,256x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,977x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,226x
- Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
· 2017 · cited 8,887x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos , ( 1972-03-31 ) 31 March 1972 (age 54) , Santiago , Chile
- Citizenship
- Chile Spain
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter composer
- Years active
- 1992–present
- Spouse
- David Blanco ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2019 )
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Described at
Amenábar, Alejandro - Filmski leksikon
film.lzmk.hr →Amenábar, Alejandro, španj. redatelj, scenarist i skladatelj (Santiago de Chile, 1972). Odustao od studija filma kako bi režirao, te nakon nekoliko kratkometr. uradaka privlači pozornost cjelovečernjim prvijencem Referat (1996), o studentici filma koja pronalazi tzv. snuff-film (film o stvarnom ubojstvu). Već sljedeći film Otvori oči (1997), triler u kojemu se miješaju san i java moralno i fizički iznakažena junaka, postiže međunar. uspjeh, a snimljen je i remake Nebo boje vanilije (C. Crowe, 2001., Amenábar je koscenarist). Zvijezda remakea T. Cruise koproducent je njegova sljedećega filma Uljezi (2001), horora/trilera o duhovima, s N. Kidman u gl. ulozi. Amenábar, Alejandro. Filmski leksikon (2003), mrežno izdanje. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2026. Pristupljeno 14.7.2026. . Naše web stranice koriste kolačiće kako bi Vam omogućili najbolje korisničko iskustvo, za analizu prometa i korištenje društvenih mreža. Doznaj više.
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Encyclopedic overview
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos ( Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo ameˈnaβaɾ]; born 31 March 1972) 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 (or co-written) the screenplays to all seven of his films and composed almost all of their soundtracks.
Early life
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