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Guillermo Arriaga

Writer / Screenwriter / Film Director | * 03/13/1958 (66) | Mexico City (Mexico)
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎeɾmo aˈrjaɣa]; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Babel and his screenplay for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are ...

Amores Perros

R

2000 | 3.8/5 | 2h 34min
Drama, Thriller
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When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, i ...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

R

2005 | 3.6/5 | 2h 1min
Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
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Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, ...

21 Grams

R

2003 | 3.7/5 | 2h 4min
Drama, Crime, Thriller
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In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, ...

Babel

R

2006 | 3.6/5 | 2h 23min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Guillermo Arriaga

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay Alfaguara Prize Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Movies with Guillermo Arriaga as Actor(2)

2012 Dreamers
as Juan2005 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Movies with Guillermo Arriaga as Crew(36)

Production/Producer2023 Upon Open Sky
Writing/Writer2023 Upon Open Sky
Writing/Screenplay2019 Zero Hour
Directing/Director2019 No One Left Behind
Writing/Writer2019 No One Left Behind
Writing/Screenplay2018 B-167-980-098
Production/Executive Producer2017 Guiltless
Writing/Screenplay2017 Guiltless
Production/Executive Producer2016 On the Milky Road
Production/Producer2016 From Afar
Writing/Writer2016 From Afar
Writing/Writer2015 In Self Defense
Writing/Screenplay2015 In Self Defense
Directing/Director2014 Words with Gods
Production/Producer2014 Words with Gods
Writing/Writer2014 Words with Gods
Directing/Director2014 Rio, I Love You
Writing/Writer2014 Rio, I Love You
Directing/Director2013 Broken Night
Writing/Writer2013 Broken Night
Directing/Director2008 The Burning Plain
Writing/Screenplay2008 The Burning Plain
Production/Producer2007 The Night Buffalo
Writing/Screenplay2007 The Night Buffalo
Writing/Novel2007 The Night Buffalo
Writing/Idea2006 Babel
Writing/Writer2006 Babel
Writing/Screenplay2005 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Production/Producer2004 Elephants Never Forget
Production/Associate Producer2003 21 Grams
Writing/Writer2003 21 Grams
Writing/Writer2001 Powder Keg
Directing/Director2000 Rogelio
Production/Associate Producer2000 Amores Perros
Writing/Author2000 Amores Perros
Writing/Novel1999 A Sweet Scent of Death

Full Name: Guillermo Arriaga
Citizenship: Mexico
Born: Thursday, 03/13 1958 (March) in Mexico City (Mexico) (current age: 66 years + 45 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Spanish (ES)
Educated at: Ibero-American University
Other names for Guillermo Arriaga (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"길예르모 아리아가"
Guillermo Arriaga frequently works together with these people:
Alejandro González Iñárritu (11x, Crew)
Lorenzo Vigas (7x, Crew)
Emir Kusturica (6x, Crew)
Mariana Arriaga (6x, Crew)
Santiago Arriaga (6x, Crew)
Ignacio Guadalupe (4x, Actor)
Emilio Echevarría (4x, Actor)
Brigitte Broch (4x, Crew)
Martín Hernández (4x, Crew)
Gabriela Diaque (3x, Crew)
Gustavo Santaolalla (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:274913, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024