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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I W I N T E R 2 0 2 3 43 win a DGA Award for Outstanding Director (and to win the DGA Award in consecutive years). He made his feature directorial debut in 2000 with the Academy Award-nominated Amores Perros. "I believe Amores Perros was an important soundtrack that collected at a very interesting time the best bands of Mexico and Latin America, plus the score of Gustavo Santaolalla. Both things wove together to create a sonic mosaic with a very 'chilango' particular personality." The critically acclaimed 21 Grams followed, receiving Academy Award nominations for Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro's performances. Babel completed Iñárritu's thematic Death Trilogy, garnering seven Academy Award nominations and earning him the Best Director award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Critically and commercially successful, Biutiful was nominated in 2011 for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards, and Academy Awards. In 2015, Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). The dark comedy, for which he also shared Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, also won for Best Cinematography, while earning an additional four nominations.The following year Iñárritu won his second Academy Award as Best Director for The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. In 2017 his visionary, viscerally impactful VR installation Carne y Arena ("Virtually present, physically invisible") previewed at the Cannes Film Festival to international critical C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I W I N T E R 2 0 2 3 43 acclaim, the first VR project chosen as an official selection of the festival. In 2018, the project won a Golden Reel for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for Special Venue from the Motion Picture Sound Editors. The director's current project, BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths depicts an intimate journey of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. BARDO marks Iñárritu's first time making a film in Mexico in more than 20 years. This will be the 18th year that CAS bestows its Filmmaker Award. Past honorees include: Gil Cates, George Clooney, Bill Condon, Jonathan Demme, Jon Favreau, Taylor Hackford. Richard Linklater, James Mangold, Rob Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Jay Roach, Sir Ridley Scott, Henry Selick, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Joe Wright, and Edward Zwick. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe