Mexico’s Inarritu to head Cannes film festival jury

The five-time Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is to head the jury at this year's Cannes film festival, the organizers said Wednesday. The 55-year-old is one of the "three amigos" of Mexican filmmakers who have dominated the Academy Awards in recent years alongside Alfonso Cuaron, the best director winner this year with "Roma" and last year's victor Guillermo del Toro for "The Shape of Water". He is also one of only three filmmakers ever to have won the Oscar for best director back-to-back, for "Birdman" in 2015 and "The Revenant" a year later. "Not only is he a daring filmmaker full of surprises, Alejandro is also a man of conviction, an artist of ...

Keep on reading: Mexico’s Inarritu to head Cannes film festival jury

from INQUIRER.net https://ift.tt/2SwA8Ls