

Alejandro González Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director in consecutive years for 'Birdman' (2015) and 'The Revenant' (2016), a feat accomplished by only three filmmakers in history. His early 'Death Trilogy'—'Amores perros,' '21 Grams,' 'Babel'—employed fractured narratives to examine human pain and coincidence across borders. Critics sometimes mistake his ambitious technical execution for grandiosity, overlooking the deeply spiritual and visceral humanism at its core. Iñárritu's immersive, often single-take cinematography and sound design permanently expanded the sensory vocabulary of mainstream cinema. His work continues to challenge the boundaries between visceral experience and metaphysical inquiry in film.
1946–1964
The largest generation in history at the time. Shaped by postwar prosperity, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, and Watergate. They questioned every institution their parents built — then ran them.
Alejandro was born in 1963, placing them squarely in the Baby Boomers. The events that shaped this generation — postwar prosperity, civil rights, Vietnam, and the counterculture — shaped the world they entered and the choices available to them.
The biggest hits of 1963
#1 Movie
Cleopatra
Best Picture
Tom Jones
#1 TV Show
Beverly Hillbillies
The world at every milestone
JFK assassinated in Dallas; Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech
Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinated
Apple Computer founded; US bicentennial
Iran hostage crisis begins; Three Mile Island accident
MTV launches; first Space Shuttle flight; AIDS identified
Apple Macintosh introduced
European Union officially established
US invades Iraq; Human Genome Project completed
Edward Snowden reveals NSA surveillance programs
ChatGPT goes mainstream; Israel-Hamas war begins
“Cinema is the ultimate lie that tells the truth about being alive.”