Former Radio DJ wins OSCAR for Best Director

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu was a DJ in Mexico during the 1980s playing rock music.
He won the OSCAR for Best Director for the film "Birdman"
A music lover, Inarritu started working for WFM radio in the 1980s while he was still a communications student at Mexico City’s Iberoamerican University.

Inarritu left WFM in the 1990s to make television advertisements and short films for his production firm, Z Films, while learning the craft from Polish-born theater director Ludwik Margules.

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