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3	->''"Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?"''
4	-->-- '''Creator/SeanPenn''' (who starred in ''Film/TwentyOneGrams'') announcing that Iñárritu had won the MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestPicture for ''[[Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance Birdman]]''
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6	Alejandro González Iñárritu (born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican director best known for his dark morality plays and his so-called "Death Trilogy" centering around themes of death. He is also well known for being friends with Creator/AlfonsoCuaron and Creator/GuillermoDelToro, the three of them making up the "Three Amigos", a dubbed group whose films, in contrast to the idealistic tone of Mexican cinema years before, have more cynical subjects and tones.
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8	!!Filmography:
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10	* ''Film/AmoresPerros'' (2000)
11	* ''Film/TwentyOneGrams'' (2003)
12	* ''Film/{{Babel}}'' (2006)
13	* ''Film/{{Biutiful}}'' (2010)
14	* ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' (2014)
15	* ''Film/TheRevenant'' (2015)
16	* ''Film/BardoFalseChronicleOfAHandfulOfTruths'' (2022)
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18	!!Tropes applying to his films:
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20	* CrapsackWorld: All of his movies take place in one.
21	* CreatorThumbprint: Dead children recur surprisingly throughout. Iñárritu himself has also noted that there's always a connection between a father and a son in his films (though this was slightly GenderFlipped in ''Birdman'' to a daughter instead of a son).
22	* DarkerAndEdgier: Than his contemporaries Creator/AlfonsoCuaron and Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
23	* TheOner: ''Birdman'' in particular is designed to look like it's entirely a single shot, but they pop up regularly in his other work too. This was enough to get a reference in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' revival during an interminable single shot: "Alejandro Iñárritu would have called cut by now!"
24	* PlayingAgainstType: He’s most well-known for his dark, gritty dramas. ''Birdman'' is his first comedy (with him noting it would have come off as the most insufferable and pretentious movie ever if it wasn't also funny), while ''The Revenant'' is his first Western. ''Bardo'' is his second comedy.
25	* ProductionPosse: Composer Gustavo Santaolalla and Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto for his first four movies, with Prieto being replaced by Emmanuel Lubezki as of ''Birdman'', and Santaolalla nowhere to be seen.
26	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Far, far down the cynical end, to the point of being nihilistic.

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