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56-590: In the past 20 years, it has also promoted a rich cultural programme, such as film festivals (Tribeca Film Festival at Fondazione Prada”, 2004; “Italian Kings of the Bs. Secret History of Italian Cinema, 1949–1976”, 2004; “Secret History of Asian Cinema”, 2005; “Secret History of Russian Cinema”, 2007), multi-disciplinary and philosophy talks and architecture and design projects (“Herzog & de Meuron, OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas. Projects for Prada. Works in Progress”, 2001; “Unveiling

112-481: A consecutive Best Director Oscar for The Revenant (2015). Iñárritu was awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (2017). Iñárritu is the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated for either director or producer in the history of the Academy Awards, the first to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and for Best Picture, the first to receive

168-579: A girl from a wealthy family to Acapulco , having been influenced by the Miloš Forman film Hair , but returned to Mexico City after a week. Soon after, Iñárritu left home and worked as a sailor on cargo boats, taking two trips at the ages of 16 and 18, sailing through the Mississippi River and then visiting Europe and Africa. With $ 1,000 supplied by his father, Iñárritu stayed in Europe for

224-402: A kids' area designed by a group of students from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles , and a bar where director Wes Anderson has recreated the typical mood of old Milan cafés. On the occasion of the opening of its new Milan venue, Fondazione Prada presented a wide range of activities. Robert Gober and Thomas Demand realized site-specific installations in dialogue with

280-526: A production company, with Raul Olvera in Mexico. Under Z Films, he started writing, producing and directing short films and advertisements. Making the final transition into TV and film directing, he studied under well-known theater director Ludwik Margules , as well as Judith Weston in Los Angeles. In 1995, Iñárritu wrote and directed his first TV pilot for Z Films, called Detrás del dinero , or Behind

336-460: A radio host at the Mexican radio station WFM , the country's most popular rock music station, where he "pieced together playlists into a loose narrative arc". He worked with and interviewed artists like Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Elton John, Bob Geldof and Carlos Santana. He also wrote and broadcast small audio stories and storytelling promos. He later became the youngest producer for Televisa ,

392-709: A school. It subsequently became the city's Monte de Pieta . The palace now houses the History Archives of the Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia , as well as having display space for the Fondazione Prada . The piano nobile frescoes were commissioned by a Caterino Cornaro, a distant descendant of the famous queen, and completed by Constantino Cedini , Vincenzo Colomba and Domenico Fossati ; they depict

448-575: A secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten. Iñárritu embarked on his third and last film that formed the "Death Trilogy", Babel (2006), written again by Arriaga. Babel comprises four interrelated stories set in Morocco , Mexico, the United States, and Japan, in four different languages. The film stars Brad Pitt , Cate Blanchett , Adriana Barraza , Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi and Kōji Yakusho . The rest of

504-455: A series of choreographic actions conceived by Virgilio Sieni. In November 2015, Fondazione Prada presented an anthological exhibition devoted to Gianni Piacentino (Turin, 1945) and curated by Germano Celant. The thematic exhibition “Recto Verso” presented in December 2015, showcased artworks that consciously foreground the hidden, concealed or forgotten phenomenon of “the back.” In early 2016,

560-436: A series of episodes from Queen Caterina Cornaro's life. 45°26′26″N 12°19′56″E  /  45.440687°N 12.332233°E  / 45.440687; 12.332233 Alejandro Gonz%C3%A1lez I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu Alejandro González Iñárritu ( / ɪ ˈ n j ɑːr ɪ t uː / ; American Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo ɣonˈsales iˈɲaritu] ; credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu ; (born 15 August 1963)

616-476: A single shot. It was the first time a Mexican Filmmaker received Best Picture at the Academy Awards. He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay , a DGA Award and a PGA Award for the film. Iñárritu was also set to direct and produce the tv series One Percent, an organic farming drama which he co-created with Alexander Dinelaris , Nicolas Giacobone, and Armando Bo for Starz . Starz gave

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672-511: A year on the second trip. Around this time, Iñárritu had the opportunity to watch the Palme d'Or -winning film Yol by world-famous Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney . Iñárritu was very impressed by Yol and later said in interviews that this film was the reason he turned to cinema. According to some Turkish journalists, the scene in The Revenant (2015) where Leonardo DiCaprio enters

728-536: Is Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish since his debut feature Amores perros . The film was nominated at the 2011 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film , and at the BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Actor . For the second time in his career, Iñárritu's film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards; Javier Bardem's performance

784-921: Is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition . His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades including five Academy Awards with a Special Achievement Award , three Golden Globe Awards , three BAFTA Awards , two Directors Guild of America Awards . His most notable films include Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). Iñárritu's films, Amores Perros (2000), and Biutiful (2010) each received Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nominations. He earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams (2003), and Babel (2006). He won three Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Original Screenplay for Birdman (2014). The following year, he received

840-415: Is married to Maria Eladia Hagerman, an editor and graphic designer. They have a daughter, Maria Eladia, and a son, Eliseo. In 2009, Iñárritu, along with several filmmakers and actors, signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski , who had been detained while traveling to a film festival following his arrest in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges , which the petition argued would undermine

896-415: Is one of only three directors to ever win consecutive Oscars, and the first to do it in 65 years. He was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards , winning three, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director; received nine Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director; five BAFTAs including Best Picture and Best Director; and a DGA Award, making history as

952-457: Is set to star. Iñarritu's cinematic influences include Max Ophüls , Robert Altman , Sidney Lumet , Ingmar Bergman , Federico Fellini , Luis Buñuel , Andrei Tarkovsky , Sergio Leone , Martin Scorsese , Yılmaz Güney , and John Cassavetes . However, his influences are not limited to film and come from a variety of sources. Iñárritu has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder . He

1008-823: Is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing , and the first to win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, Iñárritu won, among many other accolades, the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directing, the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture , and

1064-517: The 2007 Cannes Film Festival . Chacun son cinéma , a collection of 33 short films by 35 renowned film directors representing 25 countries, was produced for the 60th anniversary of the film festival. In 2012, Iñárritu made the experimental short film Naran Ja: One Act Orange Dance , inspired by L.A Dance Project's premiere performance, featuring excerpts from the new choreography Benjamin Millepied crafted for Moving Parts . The story takes place in

1120-402: The 61st Venice International Film Festival called The Secret History of Italian Cinema . The Fondazione operates an exhibition in the 18th century Palazzo Corner della Regina , which now also houses the History Archives of the Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia . From May and throughout summer 2015, both locations were thematically linked by two antiquity art exhibitions,

1176-475: The 76th Academy Awards , Del Toro and Watts received nominations for their performances. From 2001 to 2011, Iñárritu directed several short films . In 2001, he directed an 11-minute film segment for 11'09"01 September 11 - which is composed of several short films that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from different points of view around the world. In 2007, he made ANNA , part of French anthology film Chacun son cinéma , which screened at

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1232-478: The 79th Venice International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Lion and was later distributed by Netflix . The film polarized critics and received mixed reviews. Film critic Wendy Ide of The Guardian called the film "occasionally brilliant" but noted, "It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard". Iñárritu described

1288-532: The Academy Award for Best Picture , Best Original Screenplay and Best Directing for Birdman , becoming the first Mexican to win three Academy awards. In 2016, Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on The Revenant , marking the first time in 65 years that a director has won the award in two consecutive years. Iñárritu is the third director to accomplish this feat, following John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz . In 2006, Iñárritu

1344-655: The Serial Classic (ending on 24 August 2015) and the Portable Classic (ending on 13 September 2015), devised by Salvatore Settis. Palazzo Corner della Regina Palazzo Corner della Regina , commonly known as Ca' Corner della Regina , is a Baroque-style palace in the Sestiere Santa Croce of the city of Venice , Italy. In the English language, the title conforms with Palace of

1400-479: The Academy's 9th Annual Governors Awards. In 2020, it was reported that Iñárritu would write, direct, and produce a new film in Mexico, his first film made there since Amores Perros 20 years previously, and his third Spanish-Language film after Amores Perros and Biutiful . The film entitled Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths starred Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani and premiered at

1456-587: The Best Director Award at Cannes, and the first to win a DGA Award for Outstanding Directing. In 2019, Iñárritu became the first Latin American to serve as president of the jury for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival . Iñárritu and Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are known in the film industry as "The Three Amigos." Iñárritu was born on 15 August 1963 in Mexico City ,

1512-701: The Cannes Gold Lion Advertising Award. After the success of Amores Perros , Iñárritu and Arriaga revisited the intersected-stories structure of Amores perros in Iñárritu's second feature film, 21 Grams (2003). The film starred Benicio del Toro , Naomi Watts and Sean Penn . It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival , where Penn received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor . At

1568-708: The Cinema at Fondazione Prada hosted “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” is a selection of 15 films chosen by Academy Award -winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico City, 1963) in collaboration with Elvis Mitchell, film critic and Curator at LACMA of Los Angeles. On 4 February 2016, "Goshka Macuga: To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll" opened to the public - developed by artist Goshka Macuga for Fondazione Prada's spaces, it brings together reflections on seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. One of

1624-528: The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials. On 4 October 2012, Facebook released an Iñárritu-directed brand film titled The Things That Connect Us to celebrate the social network reaching one billion users. In December 2013, Warner Bros. hired Iñárritu to direct a live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book The Jungle Book . Eventually, Andy Serkis directed

1680-737: The Fondazione Prada unveiled its new permanent Milan venue, in Largo Isarco. The new Milan venue of the Fondazione, conceived by architecture firm OMA —led by Rem Koolhaas —expands the repertoire of spatial typologies in which art can be exhibited and shared with the public. The complex, which is the result of the transformation of a former distillery dating back to the 1910s, is articulated by an architectural configuration which combines preexisting buildings with three new structures, named “Podium”, “Cinema” and “Torre”. The hallmark of

1736-1076: The Fondazione include "Double Club" by Carsten Höller in London, "Prada Transformer" by OMA in Seul and "24h Museum" by Francesco Vezzoli at the Palais d’Iéna in Paris. Between 2005 and 2009, on the occasion of the Venice Biennale , solo exhibitions by Francesco Vezzoli (2005), Thomas Demand (2007), John Wesley (2009) were presented at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. Other artists exhibited included Anish Kapoor (1995), Louise Bourgeois (1997), Sam Taylor-Wood (1998), Walter De Maria (1999), Enrico Castellani (2001), Steve McQueen (2005), Tom Sachs (2006), Nathalie Djurberg (2008) and John Baldessari (2010) On 9 May 2015,

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1792-535: The Iñárritu-produced Mexican film Rudo y Cursi . Amores perros was the first installment in Iñárritu's and Arriaga's thematic "Death trilogy", and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . In 2002, Iñárritu directed "Powder Keg", an episode for the BMW short film series The Hire , starring Clive Owen as the driver and Stellan Skarsgård as a war photographer. It won

1848-720: The Money , starring Miguel Bosé . In 2000, Iñárritu directed his first feature film Amores perros , written by Guillermo Arriaga . Amores perros explored Mexican society in Mexico City told via three intertwining stories. In 2000, Amores perros premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize . It was the film debut of actor Gael García Bernal , who would later appear in Babel and

1904-625: The Prada Foundation”, 2008; “Rotor: Ex Limbo”, 2011. In 2011, the Fondazione Prada opened a new exhibition space in Venice, the Ca’ Corner della Regina , a historic palazzo on the Grand Canal, which has hosted several collective exhibitions: “Fondazione Prada_Ca’ Corner”, 2011; “The Small Utopia. Ars multiplicata”, 2012, “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013”, 2013 and "Art or Sound", 2014. Special international projects by

1960-520: The Queen from the "Corner (or Cornaro) Family" ; it is so named because Caterina Cornaro , who became Queen of Cyprus by marriage, was born to this family and at this site in 1454. The palace is located on the Grand Canal , near Ca' Pesaro , and between Ca' Favretto and Palazzo Correggio. The opposite structure is Palazzo Contarini Pisani . The present white palace facade, bedecked with columns on

2016-541: The Wilderness (1971) and starred Leonardo DiCaprio , Tom Hardy , and Domhnall Gleeson . It is a "gritty" 19th-century period drama -thriller about fur trapper Hugh Glass , a real person who joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company on a "journey into the wild" and was robbed and abandoned after being mauled by a grizzly bear. The film considers the nature and stresses on relationships under

2072-483: The belly of a dying horse was a reference to Yılmaz Güney and his film Yol , because there was a similar scene in that film. He has noted that these early travels as a young man have had a great influence on him as a filmmaker, and the settings of his films have often been in the places he visited during this period. After his travels, Iñárritu returned to Mexico City and majored in communications at Universidad Iberoamericana . Iñárritu began his career in 1984 as

2128-414: The cast comprised non-professional actors. The film competed at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , where Iñárritu received the Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) , becoming the first Mexican-born director to win the award. Babel was a critical and box office success. It received seven nominations at the 79th Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Director . Gustavo Santaolalla ,

2184-449: The duress of the wilderness, and issues of revenge and pardon via Glass's pursuit of the man who was responsible for his hardship. The Revenant took nine months to shoot. With The Revenant being a critical and commercial success, Iñárritu won a second consecutive Oscar for Best Director and was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Actor. Iñárritu

2240-506: The film titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018). In 2014, Iñárritu won three Academy Awards for directing, co-writing and co-producing Best Picture winner Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) , starring Michael Keaton , Edward Norton , Emma Stone , Naomi Watts , Zach Galifianakis , and Andrea Riseborough . The film is an existential dark comedy exploring the ego of a forgotten superhero actor, experienced as if filmed on

2296-485: The film's composer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score . The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama in 2007. Iñárritu became the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Directing and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing . After this third feature film collaboration with writing partner Arriaga, Iñárritu and he professionally parted ways, following Iñárritu's barring of Arriaga from

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2352-444: The first person to ever win two in a row. The One Percent , originally planned as an upcoming American television drama series created and written by Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. , Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó , was eventually postponed on early March 2017 due to Alejandro feeling burnt out after the production of The Revenant . The quartet, who also collaborated on Birdman , were to serve as executive producers. Iñárritu

2408-480: The industrial architecture and the new spaces in the compound. Roman Polanski explores the cinematographic inspirations behind his artistic vision, through a new documentary and a series of film screenings. Selections of artworks from the Prada Collection are presented in a series of thematic exhibitions. In September 2015, the Fondazione hosted its very first performing arts project, “Atlante del gesto”,

2464-471: The largest mass media company in Latin America . From 1987 to 1989, he composed music for six Mexican feature films. During this time, Iñárritu became acquainted with Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga , beginning their screenwriting collaborations. Iñárritu has stated that he believes music has had a bigger influence on him as an artist than film itself. In the early 1990s, Iñárritu created Z Films,

2520-510: The museum's first exhibits was a large collection of works by Edward Kienholz . The exhibition included Five Car Stud, an installation that had not been available for public view. In 2016, the Fondazione launched Osservatorio, a photography gallery on the fifth and sixth floors of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II . The Fondazione Prada was the private sector partner of a series of retrospective in Italian Cinema, first launched at

2576-534: The new venue is the so-called “Haunted House”, a 4-story building, clad in 24 carat gold foil, where pieces from the permanent collection of art of the Fondazione Prada are permanently on display. Located in Largo Isarco, in the South of Milan, the compound has a gross surface area of 19,000 m2/205,000 ft2, of which 11,000 m2/118,000 ft2 is dedicated as exhibition space. The entrance building welcomes visitors to two new facilities, developed through special collaborations:

2632-458: The response from critics as being "racist" saying, "You can like it or not — that's not the discussion. But for me, there's a kind of racist undercurrent where because I'm Mexican, I'm pretentious". It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 85th Academy Awards . In February 2024, it was announced that he is making a new film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures , with Legendary Pictures co-producing. Tom Cruise

2688-633: The set during filming. Arriaga told the Los Angeles Times in 2009, "It had to come to an end, but I still respect [González Iñárritu]." In 2010, Iñárritu directed and produced Biutiful , starring Javier Bardem , written by Iñárritu, Armando Bó Jr. , and Nicolás Giacobone . The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. Bardem went on to win Best Actor (shared with Elio Germano for La nostra vita ) at Cannes. Biutiful

2744-416: The show a straight-to-series order, but dropped out in 2017 as the U.S. broadcaster of the series, with production company MRC shopping the project to other networks or streaming platforms. In 2015, Iñárritu directed The Revenant , initially adapted by Mark L. Smith , before joined the writing process, based on Michael Punke 's novel of the same name . The film is a remake of the film Man in

2800-602: The tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects." Iñárritu has been recognized with multiple awards for his films, including five Academy Awards , two Directors Guild of America Awards , a Producers Guild of America Award , three British Academy Film Awards , three AACTA Awards , three Golden Globe Awards , two Independent Spirit Awards , two American Film Institute Awards , and three Cannes Film Festival Award . He

2856-413: The two top floors, was designed by Giuseppe Sardi in the second half of the 17th century, while the palace was reconstructed in 1724 by Domenico Rossi . The lower story has a sturdy brick-like pattern of ashlar stone masonry. The lower doors and windows are surmounted by grotesque-like masks that serve as waterspouts, hence can be called gargoyles . The upper floors have balconies with balustrades . In

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2912-629: The upper floor, the balcony window-doors have triangular pediments . The main floor or piano nobile has tall window-doors with a rounded top and helmeted female busts at the keystone . The palace hosted the last of the Corner, a priest, until 1800, when the palace was willed to the Papal authorities, who ceded the palace to the Congregation of the Schools of Charity ( Cavanis Institute ) to establish

2968-540: The youngest of seven siblings, to Luz María Iñárritu and Héctor González Gama. His maternal grandfather, Alfredo Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar, was a prominent lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico with partial Basque origins. Héctor was a banker who owned a ranch, but went bankrupt when Iñárritu was five. A poor student, Iñárritu was expelled from high school at the age of 16 or 17 due to poor grades and misbehavior. He briefly ran off with

3024-736: Was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor . In 2010, Iñárritu directed " Write the Future ", a football-themed commercial for Nike ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup , which went on to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival . In 2012, he directed Procter & Gamble 's "Best Job" commercial spot for the 2012 Olympic Ceremonies . It won the Best Primetime Commercial Emmy at Creative Arts Emmy Awards and

3080-710: Was honored at the Gotham Awards ' World Cinema Tribute, alongside fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro . In 2011, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Zurich Film Festival . In 2015, Iñárritu received the Sundance Institute 's Vanguard Leadership Award for the "originality and independent spirit" of his films. He was also honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at its Art + Film Gala . That year, he received an honorary doctorate from

3136-558: Was set to direct the first two episodes and set the visual style of the show. Iñárritu's virtual reality project Carne y Arena was the first ever VR installation presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Carne y Arena was also presented, at LACMA, Washington, D.C., and featured at the Prada Foundation in Milan . Additionally, Carne y Arena was awarded the first Special Achievement Academy Award in over 20 years at

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