Alejandro G. Iñárritu Returns With His Most Personal Film

Alejandro González Iñárritu poses for a portrait to promote the film "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

(AP) -- In 2016, Alejandro G. Iñárritu found himself walking up to the Oscars stage to pick up the best director award for the second time in two years. “I can’t believe this is happening,” he said.

With his consecutive wins for “Birdman” and “The Revenant” he had become one of only three directors, the others are John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, to do so and the first since