The Others Director: Alejandro Amenabar Biography

Alejandro Amenabar was born on March 31, 1972 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He grew up mainly in Madrid where he studied cinema at the Sciences Information Faculty at Madrid's Complutense University, he was not the best student and later dropped out to start making his own cinemas. In his best known early film Himenóptero from 1992, he directed, produced, acted, and wrote the script and the music for. Amenbar's first commercial success was, Thesis, this film was his career breakthrough and displayed that he was a major director. His later movies Abre Los Ojos and The Others confirmed his place in cinematography. In all his films he writes the script and the music as well as composing for other films. He 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.