Auteur

Alejandro Amenábar

Born 1972 · Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer

Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos 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 the screenplays to all seven of his films and composed almost all of their soundtracks.

Alejandro Amenábar, in order

  1. 1992 Himenóptero: directed, wrote, acted
  2. 1994 Luna: directed, wrote, acted
  3. 1996 Tesis: directed, wrote, produced
  4. 1997 Open Your Eyes: directed, wrote, acted
  5. 1999 Nobody Knows Anybody: acted · directed by Mateo Gil
  6. 2001 The Others: directed, wrote · critics 85%, audiences 77% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, Shudder
  7. 2001 Vanilla Sky: wrote · directed by Cameron Crowe · critics 41%, audiences 72% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
  8. 2004 The Sea Inside: directed, wrote, produced
  9. 2009 Agora: directed, wrote
  10. 2009 Spanish Movie: acted · directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera
  11. 2010 For the Good of Others: produced · directed by Óskar Santos
  12. 2015 Regression: directed, wrote, produced
  13. 2019 While at War: directed, wrote
  14. 2021 La Fortuna (TV series): directed, wrote
  15. 2025 The Captive: directed, wrote, produced