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    Alejandro Amenábar

    1972-03-31 (52 years old) in 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 as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas. Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express. Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.

    Movies

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    Spanish Movie
    49 %|Dec 3, 2009
    Comedy
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    Spectre
    51.19 %|Sep 27, 2006
    Drama, Horror, Mystery
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    Nadie conoce a nadie
    55 %|Nov 26, 1999
    Thriller
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    Luna
    75 %|Jan 1, 1995
    Thriller
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    Himenóptero
    60 %|Jan 1, 1992
    Thriller

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