MEXICO CITY: Years after playing 1980s rock music as a popular radio DJ in Mexico, film-maker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu was back behind a microphone on Sunday: To accept the Oscar for best director.
Inarritu -- the creative force behind dark comedy "Birdman -- became the second Mexican in a row to win Hollywood's top directing prize, one year after countryman Alfonso Cuaron was rewarded for space thriller "Gravity."
"All the work of these incredible fellow filmmakers can't be compared, can't be labeled, can't be defeated, because they exist and our work only will be judged, as always, by time," Inarritu said as he accepted his award, speaking of his fellow nominees.
Inarritu and his friends Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro have been dubbed the "Three Amigos," heading a golden generation of Mexican film-makers who have scooped up the industry's most prestigious prizes in recent years.
"Birdman," starring Michael Keaton as a washed up superhero movie star attempting to revive his career on Broadway, marks a break from Inarritu's somber dramas.
While he shot to fame with his 2000 Mexican drama "Amores Perros," and earned his first Oscar directing nomination for the Brad Pitt-starring "Babel" in 2006, the 51-year-old Inarritu came late to the movie world.
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