Director
Alejandro Amenábar
Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter, and composer born March 31, 1972 in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Madrid, Spain. He has written the screenplay and composed the score for nearly all of his own films, an unusually complete degree of authorial control. The Others (2001), his first English-language feature and starring Nicole Kidman, won him Best Director at the Goya Awards and builds its entire haunted-house premise around a single, carefully withheld reveal about its own protagonist. He later accepted an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of Spain for The Sea Inside (2004).