Gonzalez Inarritu could win next Sunday, consecutively, his second Academy Award for best director for ‘the Revenant’, after the success of ‘Birdman’. And if it does, it would be the third consecutive Oscar for a Mexican director in history after Cuarón was boosted with the same honor in 2014 for ‘Gravity’.
‘The Goat’ Lubezki, meanwhile, could becoming the first cinematographer to win an Academy Award for three consecutive years.
This dream, which until a few years ago seemed impossible, began long before ‘Gravity’ or held tape Del Toro ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (2006), winner of three Oscars.
the four filmmakers “lead a generation that marked a before and after in Mexican cinema,” he told the Associated Press Jose Antonio Valdes , deputy director of information and special projects of the National Film Archives of Mexico. “They come from a generation that has a different mentality, where the idea of global filmmaker was already a reality and I think we’re seeing now. Mexican filmmaker no longer thinks of Mexico, think global “.
His early success prompted them to go to Hollywood, where Lubezki was the first to make a big production when he made the picture of ‘Reality Bites’, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder in 1994.
Cuarón continued in 1995 with ‘A Little Princess’, also with photograph of Lubezki, while Del Toro premiered’ Mimic ‘ in 1997 and Inarritu ’21 grams’ in 2003.
Born between 1961 and 1964, the four filmmakers were prophets in the land and, unlike other directors and producers in the region, his talent was recognized from the beginning of their careers.
in 1991, Cuarón produced the popular romantic comedy ‘Only with your Partner’ photo of Lubezki, which won two Ariel awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar.
Del Toro followed with ‘Cronos’, 1993, which won nine awards Ariel. And Lubezki was awarded the Ariel ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ (1992), ‘Miroslava’ (1993) and ‘Ambar’ (1994).
The debut of Gonzalez Inarritu took several years, partly because the film was not in his original plans. In 2000, with a written script with Mexican director Guillermo Arriaga, who was one of his teachers at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Iñárritu released ‘Amores Perros’ was not only a success in the Mexican box office but also in Latin America.
Ariel received 11 awards, including best debut film, director and actor, Gael García Bernal. In addition, she was nominated for an Oscar for best film in a foreign language, which made him the first Mexican film in 25 years won the bid from ‘Acts of Marusia’ in 1975.
The pair also made the script of ’21 grams’ and ‘Babel’, until creative differences ended their collaboration.
An unexpected success for someone who, between 17 and 19 years, worked on a cargo ship and traveled by different countries and their return to Mexico in the mid-eighties, came to study communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
was a student Even when he was selected, along with his classmate Martin Hernandez, to be announcers of a new radio station that transmitted rock for the entire city, WFM.
“we were allowed to stay to use the machines and the study and all, and we took advantage of that, we became owners station literally were the owners of the station, did what hit us the win, “Hernandez told the Associated Press in a recent interview.
they were in the early twenties and work absorbed them so they had to leave school.
“When we came out we sold the idea that we would return the next semester,” said Hernandez, who became the soundman header Gonzalez Inarritu said and date he has collaborated on all his films. Both worked at the station until the next decade; Gonzalez Inarritu became the director, and never returned to college.
“We never thought actively work (in the film), but if we had proposed surely we would have liked,” Hernandez said. “I would have done as did ‘Amores Perros’, inventing, saying yes and then see how.”
After passing through the radio, Gonzalez Inarritu co-founded advertising agency Z Films, where did commercials he ran.
Daniela Michel, director general of the International Film Festival of Morelia, met Gonzalez Inarritu in those times, when organized the days of Mexican short film at the National Film Archives to support young filmmakers and sought being publicist for sponsorship.
“to my surprise, after half an hour talking on the phone, without knowing, I said, ‘I really am you came by your sponsorship check like’ … I thought in advance on a very generous gesture, “Michel remembered
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then he made a television pilot ‘Behind the Money’ (1995), starring the Spanish singer Miguel Bosé, then the short film ‘the Ring’ (1996).
the atmosphere in Mexican cinema in the second half of the nineties, which had passed its Golden Age in the 1940s and 50s, was as dry as the deserts of the country.
the Mexican film “lived a terrible time like the 1980s, with films ficheras (sexual comedy) and narcos” Valdes, deputy director of information Cineteca said. The country had just gone through an economic crisis, marked by a sharp devaluation, and most of the films depended on government support for their implementation, so that production was almost nil.
In 1991, when Cuarón making his debut in Mexico 76 films were released. But after the crisis, between 1994 and 2000 137 tapes were made.
In 2000, the year in which premiered ‘Amores Perros’, was one of the worst in terms of domestic production, with just 15 films premiered, according to the book ‘routes of Mexican Cinema 1990-2006′, the documentary filmmaker and researcher Carla Gonzalez Vargas.
“Even in 2003, when we opened the Festival of Morelia, at that time there was nothing else three films (Mexican) that we could present in October, “Michel said, who noted that at present 140 films are made a year.
in his student days, Michel was assiduous cineclub University Cultural Center, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico like Carlos and Alfonso Cuarón or Lubezki brothers.
“Alfonso Iban, ‘El Chivo’, there are many people who formed it,” Michel said. “There were a few children, some smaller than others, but we all saw in the CUC”.
In the case of Chivo, his interest in films dating back to adolescence.
“I remember the Chivo Chiquito, it will have known when I was 15 or 14 years, since very little was interested in walking there with his camera all the time,” Michel said. “They had very clear all they wanted to do theater and film really. They went to counter because in Mexico we were told that the film in Mexico had died “.
After the Mexican boom, actors like Salma Hayek, Oscar-nominated starring in the American film ‘Frida’ 2002 Kate del Castillo, Ana de la Reguera, Demian Bichir and Eugenio Derbez took to seek opportunities in the US and try to emulate the success, decades ago, of actresses like Lupe Velez and Dolores del Rio, who made many films in the first decades of the last century. They also tried their luck Arturo de Cordova, Emilio ‘El Indio’ Fernandez and Mario Moreno ‘Cantinflas’ which won a Golden Globe in 1957 for “Around the World in 80 Days’ and four years later received another award for his humorous trajectory.
But unlike those Mexicans first who ventured into Hollywood, Cuarón, Del Toro, Inarritu and Lubezki have made his work is recognized by the Academy.
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