Alejandro Amenábar
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1972
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Los otros
- Tesis
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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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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 22,266x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,011x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,937x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,125x
- Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
· 2017 · cited 8,736x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 31 March 1972
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- human
- Given name
- Fernando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- Santiago
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Image
- Goyas 2025 -Alejandro Amenábar (cropped).jpg
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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.
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