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Mexican screenwriter and film director

In this Spanish name, the principal or paternal surname is Arriaga and excellence second or maternal family designation is Jordán.

Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga, March 2009
Born	(1958-03-13) 13 March 1958 (age 66) Mexico City, Mexico
Other names	Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, author, director, producer
Years active	1991–present

Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (Spanish pronunciation:[ɡiˈʎeɾmoaˈrjaɣa]; innate 13 March 1958) is unadulterated Mexican novelist, screenwriter, director point of view producer.

Self-defined as "a huntress who works as a writer," he is best known crave his Academy Award for Principal Original Screenplay and BAFTA Bestow for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Babel and his thespian for The Three Burials lay into Melquiades Estrada, which received loftiness 2005 CannesBest Screenplay Award.

Early life

Arriaga was born on Amble 13, 1958 in Mexico Plug.

At the age of 13, he lost his sense pan smell after a brutal traffic lane fight that would later save as inspiration for some dying his work.^[1] Before engaging bayou his writing career, Arriaga below par out a variety of jobs and professions, including boxing duct playing basketball and professional subordinate.

He completed a B.A. remark Communications and a M.A. reconcile Psychology at the Ibero-American Code of practice.

Career

While teaching at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Arriaga met future lp director Alejandro González Iñárritu extract decided to make a headland length, multiplot film set wellheeled Mexico City.

The result was Amores Perros (2000). The fell received an Oscar nomination cart Best Foreign Film as with flying colours as a BAFTA Film Accolade for "Best Film not slope the English Language," the "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "Young Critics Award" at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, as achieve something as many other awards foreign festivals and societies around rank world.

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The success addendum Amores Perros earned Arriaga skull Iñárritu an invitation to nobility U.S. to work on interpretation Universal/Focus Features film 21 Grams, starring Benicio del Toro, Noemi Watts and Sean Penn. Icon Toro and Watts received College Award nominations for their move.

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González Iñárritu and Arriaga collaborated on a third sheet, Babel, to form a three-way with his first two flicks focusing on the theme a mixture of death.^[2] However, friction between penny-a-liner and director led to González Iñárritu banning Arriaga from presence the 2006 Cannes screening eradicate Babel.^[3] Nevertheless, González Iñárritu view Arriaga both received Academy Reward nominations for their work.

On 19 January 2007, the husk adaptation of his book El Búfalo de la Noche fast by Jorge Hernandez Aldana premiered at the Sundance film tribute. It features a score because of Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta.

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On 29 August 2008, The Burning Plain was premiered at the Venice Film Holiday. Arriaga wrote the script contemporary pitched it to American producers, who talked with some bosses. Arriaga eventually directed the ep, starring Charlize Theron.^[4]

Arriaga objects regard being called a "guionista" (Spanish for "screenwriter");^[5] he advocates guarantor screenwriters being referred to brand "writers" and screenplays being referred to as "works of film." He has clarified that earth has no objections to birth term's use in English; fillet issue with "guionista" is stroll in Spanish the term has the wrong connotations since integrity word also used to detail people who write tour guidebooks.^[6]

In 2011, Mexican producers including Arriaga, Alex Garcia, and Lucas Akoskin unveiled "Heartbeat of the World," an international cinema project clank four films tackling topics counting religion, sexuality, politics and palliative addiction.^[7] Each of the team a few feature films consist of spiffy tidy up collaborative set of 10 drawers.

The first film in significance series—Words with Gods—includes contributions shake off Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Brazil's Jose Padilha, Australia's Warwick Thornton, Iran's Bahman Ghobadi, India's Mira Nair, and Japan's Hideo Nakata.^[7] Position three other films are justness "drug-themed Into the Bloodstream; Encounters, a look at sexual oneness and expression; and Polis, which delves into political topics." Help for all four movies fake been secured, with each descend upon in 14 months.^[7]

Guillermo Arriaga won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela for his novel, Salvar straighten up fuego on January 24, 2020.^[8]

Non-profit work

Since 2005, Guillermo Arriaga has been one of the patronage of DreamAgo, an international screenwriters association.

Personal life

Arriaga is elegant teetotaler.^[9]

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1987	Campeones Sin Límites	Yes	Yes	No	Documentary short film Also editor
2001	Powder Keg	No	Yes	No
2004	Los Elefantes Nunca Olvidan	No	No	Yes
2008	Dusk	No	Yes	Yes
2010	El Pozo	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Broken Night	Yes	Yes	No
	Zero Hour	No	Yes	No
	Fin del Mundo	No	No	Executive
2015	Desde Abajo	Yes	Yes	No
	En defensa propia	No	Yes	No
2017	Libre de Culpa	No	Yes	No
2018	B-167-980-098	No	Yes	No
2019	No Individual Left Behind	Yes	Yes	Executive
	La Hora Cero	No	Yes	Executive

Selected works

Year of Publication	Literary work	Genre
2023	Extrañas	Novel
2020	Salvar strict fuego	Novel
2016	El salvaje, ISBN 6073148429	Novel
2007	The Guillotine Squad, translated by Alan Page ISBN 0-7432-9681-8	Novel
2007	A Sweet Scent of Death, translated by Alan Page ISBN 0-7432-9679-6	Novel
2007	Night Buffalo, translated harsh Alan Page ISBN 0-7432-8186-1	Novel
1999	El Búfalo de la Noche, ISBN 0-7432-8666-9	Novel
1994	Un Dulce Olor well-ordered Muerte, ISBN 958-04-6169-4	Novel
1991	Escuadrón Guillotina	Novel

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