¡González Iñárritu and Lubezki triumph at the Oscars!

FICM is delighted to announce that Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu has won the Oscar for Best Director for The Revenant at the 88th Oscar ceremony, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was also honored at the ceremony, winning the Oscar for Best Photography – for the third year in a row – for his work on The Revenant. Congratulations to both of these extraordinarily talented men!

Alejandro González Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki at the 2016 Oscars. Images from the AMPAS.

In 2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu won Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Script (shared with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo) and Best Film (shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole) for Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which was the Opening Film at the 12th edition of FICM. The director, who has been a Special Guest at FICM on three occasions, has also received various awards from different institutions, including Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 for Babel. This year, the Academy has awarded González Iñárritu the award for Best Director for the second year running. At the prize ceremony the director said that he wanted to “make sure for once and forever that the color of the skin becomes as irrelevant as the length of our hair.”

This is the third year in a row that Emmanuel Lubezki has won the Oscar for Best Cinematography: in 2015 he won the statuette for Birdman, and in 2014 he won the same award for his work on Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (which was the Opening Film at the 11th FICM). Lubezki has established himself as one of the best cinematographers in the world, and it is a pleasure to see his magnificent work acknowledged once more by the Academy. At the prize ceremony Lubezki said “ The director is author of the movie. I'm lucky to work with these great authors trying to push cinematographic language further…”

As well as the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography, the Academy also honored Leonardo DiCaprio with the Oscar for Best Actor for his work on The Revenant, marking the first time the actor has ever won an Oscar statuette.

Below, we include a list of winners from the 2016 Oscars:

Best Film
– Spotlight, produced by Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust

Best Actor
– Leonardo DiCaprio, for The Revenant

Best Actress
– Brie Larson, for Room

Best Supporting Actor
– Mark Rylance, for Bridge of Spies

Best Supporting Actress
– Alicia Vikander, for The Danish Girl

Best Animated Feature
– Inside Out, by Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera

Best Cinematography
–Emmanuel Lubezki, for The Revenant

Best Adapted Screenplay
– The Big Short, by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay

Best Original Screenplay
– Spotlight, by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy

Best Editing
– Mad Max: Fury Road, for Margaret Sixel

Best Sound Editing
– Mad Max: Fury Road, for Mark Mangini and David White

Best Sound Mix
– Mad Max: Fury Road, for Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo

Best Music
– The Hateful Eight, for Ennio Morricone

Best Production Design
– Mad Max: Fury Road, for Colin Gibson (production design) and Lisa Thompson (set decoration)

Best Director
– The Revenant by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Best Documentary
– Amy, by Asif Kapadia, produced by James Gay-Rees (Special Program: UK-MX, 13th FICM)

Best Short Film
– Stutterer, by Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Best Animated Short
– Bear Story, by Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Best Short Documentary
– A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Best Foreign Language Film
– Son of Saul, by László Nemes (Hungary) (Special Screening at the 13th FICM)

Check out the full list: here.