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- Birth nameGuillermo Arriaga Jordán
- Guillermo Arriaga was born on March 13, 1958 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and producer, known for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), 21 Grams (2003) and Amores Perros (2000).
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- Wrote Alejandro G. Iñárritu's first three feature films: Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006).
- In 2007, he was one of 10 Mexican Oscar-nominees. The others were Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo Navarro, Emmanuel Lubezki, Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta and Fernando Cámara.
- His novel El Bufalo de la Noche (The Night Buffalo) was adapted into a feature film by director Jorge Hernandez Aldana.
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010.
- One of 115 invitees to join AMPAS in 2007.
- Hollywood is very tempting. It's tempting in the sense that you can be meeting interesting persons all the time. Living in Mexico allows me to be more down to earth, to see regular people, life itself bubbling.
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