Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out. In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas. Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express. Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria. 알레한드로 아메나바르(1972년생, Santiago de Chile, Chile) 는 작가로, 대표작으로 디 아더스, 바닐라 스카이, 리그레션이 있으며, 그 외에도 아고라, 떼시스, 씨 인사이드, 오픈 유어 아이즈, La Fortuna, 전쟁의 시간, El cautivo, Luna, Himenóptero 등 다양한 작품에 참여했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 El cautivo 연출을 맡았다. 2025년 El cautivo 집필을 맡았다. 2025년 El cautivo 제작에 참여했다.