Alejandro González Iñárritu

Iñárritu was born in Mexico City, the youngest of seven children to Luz María Iñárritu and Héctor González Gama. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship at the ages of 16 and 18, Iñárritu worked his way across Europe and Africa. He has noted that these early travels as a young man have had a great influence on him as a filmmaker. The settings of his films have often been in the places he visited during this period. After his travels, Iñárritu returned to Mexico City and majored in communications at Universidad Iberoamericana, one of the most prestigious private universities in Mexico.\n', '

Iñárritu began his career in 1984 as a radio host at the Mexican radio station WFM, the country\'s most popular rock music station, where he "pieced together playlists into a loose narrative arc". During his time in radio he also wrote and broadcast small audio stories and storytelling promos, th…