Three tangled-fate dramas, a one-take Broadway comedy, a frozen survival epic and a late run of big-budget experiments. Every feature he has directed is on the board.
1Amores PerrosIñárritu's 2000 debut, three Mexico City stories joined by a single car crash and the dogs caught up in it.
221 GramsA 2003 drama in shuffled time with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro bound together by one accident.
3BabelA 2006 drama across Morocco, Mexico, the US and Japan, set off by a single rifle shot, with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
4BiutifulA 2010 Barcelona drama with Javier Bardem, who won Best Actor at Cannes as a dying man settling his affairs.
5BirdmanThe 2014 Best Picture winner, Michael Keaton as a faded superhero actor staging a Broadway play, shot to look like one continuous take.
6The RevenantA 2015 frontier survival film with Leonardo DiCaprio in his Oscar-winning role, shot by Emmanuel Lubezki in natural light.
7BardoBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022), a sprawling, dreamlike portrait of a Mexican journalist returning home.
8DiggerIñárritu's 2026 satire with Tom Cruise, shot by Lubezki on giant sets and miniatures, his most expensive production yet.
Photo credits
- Amores Perros — Altavista Films / Zeta Film, rights holder
- 21 Grams — Focus Features, rights holder
- Babel — Paramount Vantage, rights holder
- Biutiful — Roadside Attractions / Menageatroz, rights holder
- Birdman — Fox Searchlight Pictures, rights holder
- The Revenant — 20th Century Fox / New Regency, rights holder
- Bardo — Netflix, rights holder
- Digger — Warner Bros. Pictures, rights holder
