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Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film will be titled Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Deadline has learned. The news comes as the five-time Oscar winner wraps production in Mexico City. The feature penned by Iñárritu and his longtime collaborator Nicolás Giacobone is billed as a nostalgic comedy set…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu is underway on his first feature in the director's chair since he won three Oscars for The Revenant. The Los Angeles Times reported that the new project has rolled cameras in Iñárritu's hometown of Mexico City and that it is going under the title Limbo. The Spanish-language movie is being led by…

The Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted a special honorary Oscar (statuette) to director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s extraordinary virtual reality installation Carne y Arena. It will be presented at the upcoming Governors Awards on November 11 to be held at the Ray Dolby…

At an airport hangar on the French Riviera, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki are presenting a project that promises to birth an entirely new medium. Previous experiments with virtual reality have been promising, delivering a mix of cinema and gaming in an immersive technology that allows viewers a…

There has been much written about the potential of virtual reality as a new medium for artists, but Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s CARNE y ARENA, the first VR project selected for the Cannes Film Festival, might be as definitive for this art form as the Lumières’ L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat was for film; the…

EXCLUSIVE: The One Percent, MRC’s drama series from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is on the move. The project, which originally was picked up by Starz in summer 2014 with a 10-episode straight-to-series order, is now in turnaround after several production start delays led to the pay cable network…

UPDATED with Academy letter to members at bottom: Well, it doesn’t look like Oscar will be kicking any nuns or many senior citizens to the curb after all. With Tuesday’s clarification of what “active voters” really means, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences might have dodged a potential bullet. In January…

“Welcome to the Academy Awards,” Chris Rock said near the top of Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, “otherwise known as the ‘White Peoples’ Choice Awards.’ If they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job — you'd be watching Neil Patrick Harris.” That comment, along with a few others sprinkled through the 3 1/2-hour ABC…

With Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Oscar win tonight as Best Director for The Revenant, the director became part of Academy history by becoming the first director in 65 years to win back-to-back directing Oscars. The only other two in that elite club are helmers John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Inarritu also directed…

This issue of AwardsLine went to press moments before Alejandro G. Iñárritu took the top DGA Awards prize last weekend, but without question the big shocker in the AMPAS list—and isn't there always at least one of those in this category?—was the omission of veteran Ridley Scott for his superb work on The Martian…

As he was leaving the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza ballroom tonight, Steve Golin, producer of dueling nominees Spotlight  and The Revenant, said of the latter’s DGA victory for director Alejandro G. Inarritu, “Well, now I guess it is getting really interesting.” That’s an understatement as both his movies continue to…

With such strong Oscar Best Picture contenders as The Revenant, The Big Short, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian dominating the DGA’s list of five directing nominees this morning, there really was no surprise at all with the inclusions on this lineup. Although in my view there was a real eye opener with…