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Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born 4 December 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist.

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Álex de la Iglesia
Iglesia at the Berlinale 2017
Born	Alejandro de la Iglesia Mendoza (1965-12-04) 4 December 1965 (age 56) Bilbao, Biscay, Spain
Alma mater	University of Deusto
Occupation	Film director screenwriter producer
Spouse(s)	Amaya Díez ​ (m. 1997⁠–⁠2010)​ Carolina Bang ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	2

De la Iglesia's films combine grotesque and very dark elements such as death and murder: most of his works are considered dark comedies, but are also often considered to have horror and/or drama elements. All his films, with the notable exceptions of The Last Circus (2010) and As Luck Would Have It (2011), were written together with Jorge Guerricaechevarría.

Biography

Alejandro de la Iglesia Mendoza was born on 4 December 1965 in Bilbao,[1] son to a professor of Sociology (father) and a realist painter (mother) and the youngest of five siblings.[2] He received his primary and secondary education in Jesuitic centres,[3] later earning a licentiate degree in Philosophy from the University of Deusto, likewise a Jesuitic centre.[2]

A comic book artist since young,[2] he had a brief stint in television before finding work as production designer on Pablo Berger's Mamá.[4] This little seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a nuclear war and features a little boy who wears a Batman costume.

He shared an apartment in the Calle Ledesma with Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Guerrica, who would end up becoming the co-writer of most of his screenplays.[5] He also associated since very early in his film beginnings with other future longstanding collaborators such as art directors Arturo García, Biaffra [ca] (whom he met at the Bilbao's Artistic Reproductions Museum) and José Luis Arrizabalaga, Arri.[5] Together with Guerricaechevarría, de la Iglesia made the short film Mirindas Asesinas (1991),[5] in which a boring man, whose mind is gradually degenerating, is on the verge of becoming a psychotic killer.

Enrique Urbizu came calling for his production designer services in 1991 for Todo por la pasta (Anything for money),[4] a Basque crime thriller which was nominated for 4 Goya Awards, and won 1 (best supporting actress).

In 1993, de la Iglesia received a big break when Spain's most famous director, Pedro Almodóvar, produced his debut feature Acción mutante (Mutant Action).[4] This tale of a group of crippled and handicapped outcasts in the future taking arms against handsome oppressors, became an independent success globally.

The next step he took was El día de la Bestia (The Day Of The Beast) (1995). It won 6 Goyas, the Best Director award amongst them. It also marked his first collaboration with producer Andrés Vicente Gómez.

Wanting to build on the success of The Day Of The Beast, Gómez hired Iglesia to direct Perdita Durango based on novelist Barry Gifford's 59 Degrees and Raining; The Story of Perdita Durango. Barry Gifford helped out on the script also. Isabella Rossellini played Perdita Durango in David Lynch's Wild At Heart, also based on a Gifford work. The film was in English, but did not prove as great a success as hoped; for some it felt too post-Tarantino. The film was also more nasty in its violence, and its confrontational style (though laced with typically dark humour), resulted in cuts and running times around the globe varying from 95 minutes in South Korea to 126 minutes in Spain. It was rumoured Bigas Luna was originally offered the director's chair for the film.

Also in 1997, Iglesia wrote Payasos en la lavadora (Clowns in the Washing Machine), a satirical novel.

Back in Spain, in 1999 de la Iglesia had success with Dying of Laughter, a dark comedy about a Martin and Lewis-style comic duo with no love for each other, nominated for 3 Goyas, winning 2. La comunidad (2000), a dark comedy/thriller set in an apartment block with a money scram, got 15 Goya nominations, won 3.

In 2000, Iglesia was developing an English language Fu Manchu reboot film, which would have starred Antonio Banderas as an FBI agent on Manchu's trail.[6][7] The unproduced film was scrapped due to escalating budget.[8]

800 balas (800 Bullets) (2002), a homage to spaghetti westerns, got 4 Goya nominations, 1 win. De la Iglesia's next film, Crimen Ferpecto (The Ferpect Crime) (2004), a dark comedy thriller with a man aspiring to perfection, winning 6 Goya prizes as a result.

De la Iglesia himself also provided the voice of the Underminer in the Spanish language dubbing of The Incredibles (2004).

In 2006, he directed an episode of the TV series Películas para no dormir (Films To Keep You Awake) titled La habitación del niño (The Baby's Room).

In 2008, de la Iglesia directed the science-fiction comedy TV series Plutón B.R.B. Nero.

He has directed Elijah Wood and John Hurt in The Oxford Murders, which is his second movie in English, released in Spain in January 2008.

Awards

His first feature film Accion mutante received two prizes at the Montreal Fantasia Festival, and three Goya's.^{[citation needed]} For The Day of the Beast (1995), de la Iglesia won the Goya Award for Best Director.^{[citation needed]}

The films El día de la Bestia, Muertos de risa, Perdita Durango, The Oxford Murders, La comunidad, 800 balas, Crimen Ferpecto, La chispa de la vida, Las brujas de Zugarramurdi and Balada triste de trompeta were part of the Álex de la Iglesia: Dancing with the Devil at the Toronto International Film Festival 2015.[9]

On November 17, 2017, Álex de la Iglesia received the star on Almeria Walk of Fame.[10][11][12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1993	Mutant Action	Yes	Yes	No
1995	The Day of the Beast	Yes	Yes	No
1997	Dance with the Devil	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Dying of Laughter	Yes	Yes	No	Also uncredited cameo role as "Espectador que grita a Bruno para que le enseñe las tetas"
2000	Common Wealth	Yes	Yes	No
2002	800 Bullets	Yes	Yes	Uncredited
2004	Ferpect Crime	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	The Oxford Murders	Yes	Yes	Uncredited
2010	The Last Circus	Yes	Yes	No
2011	As Luck Would Have It	Yes	No	No
2013	Witching & Bitching	Yes	Yes	No
2014	Messi	Yes	No	No	Documentary film about Lionel Messi
	Words With Gods	Segment director	Segmenet writer	Segment producer	Segment "The Confession"
2015	My Big Night	Yes	Yes	No
2017	The Bar	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Perfect Strangers	Yes	Yes	Yes
2021	Veneciafrenia	Yes	Yes	Yes
2022	El cuarto pasajero	Yes	Yes	Yes
TBD	Mandrágora[13]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Pre-production

Producer only

Year	Title	Notes
2014	Shrew's Nest	Presenter
2015	Los Heroes del Mal
2017	Skins
	Errementari
2018	Up Among the Stars
	70 Big Ones
TBA	La piedad (Piety)
	Jaula

Short film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Notes
1990	Mirindas Asesinas	Yes	Yes	Also art director
2000	¡Enigma en el bosquecillo!	Yes	No
2006	El Codigo	Yes	Yes	Also editor, sound and actor Role: Interviewer (voice)
	Hitler está vivo	Yes	Yes	Also editor
2011	Cómicos	Yes	Yes	Advertising Short
2013	El Contrato de Vodafone Yu	Yes	Yes
2018	Una vez en la vida	Yes	Yes	Advertising short; destroyed film

Other work

Year	Film	Work	Notes
1988	Tú novia esta loca	Collaborator	Film
	Mama	Art director	Short film
1991	Todo por la pasta		Film
2014	Torrente 5	Script consultant

Television

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2006	The Baby's Room	Yes	Yes	No	TV Movie
2008	Plutón B.R.B. Nero	Yes	Yes	Co-Producer	TV Series; also cameo in 1 episode as "El Padre"
2009	La tragedia de Franco	Yes	Yes	No	TV Short film; also actor as himself
2020	30 Coins	Yes	Yes	Executive	TV Series

As actor

• Los Increíbles (The Incredibles Spanish version, voice) (2004)
• Spanish Movie (2009)
• Toy Story 3 (Spanish version, voice) (2010)
• Herederos de la bestia (2016)

Interviews

• Slant
• Green Cine Daily
• Boston Globe
• IFC
• Village Voice

References

External links

• Álex de la Iglesia at IMDb
• Álex de la Iglesia at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] Álex de la Iglesia

Álex de la Iglesia (eigentlich Alejandro de la Iglesia; * 4. Dezember 1965 in Bilbao, Spanien) ist ein spanischer Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor. Zwischen Juni 2009 und Februar 2011 war er der Präsident der Spanischen Filmakademie.[1]

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- [en] Álex de la Iglesia

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[es] Álex de la Iglesia

Alejandro de la Iglesia Mendoza (Bilbao, 4 de diciembre de 1965), conocido como Álex de la Iglesia, es un director, productor y guionista de cine español. Con anterioridad fue historietista.

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[ru] Де ла Иглесиа, Алекс

Áлекс де ла Иглéсиа (исп. Álex de la Iglesia; род. 4 декабря 1967, Бильбао, Испания) — испанский (баскский) кинорежиссёр, актёр, сценарист и продюсер.

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