21 Grams

For their next feature film, 21 Grams (2003), González Iñárritu and Arriaga ventured into English-language cinema. As with Amores perros, the film told the story of seemingly isolated individuals whose lives are subtly intertwined. The two men next collaborated on Babel (2006), featuring an international cast headlined by Brad Pitt…

…addict in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams (2003). Del Toro took the part of Che Guevara in Soderbergh’s two-part biopic Che (2008), for which he won the best actor award at the Cannes film festival.

…Toro) in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams (2003). She attracted favourable mention for her role in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005). Leo’s performance as a single mother in desperate financial straits who becomes a smuggler of illegal refugees in Frozen River (2008) earned her a…

…the Venice Film Festival for 21 Grams (2003), and the following year he received a best actor Oscar for his role as the grief-stricken father of a murdered young woman in Mystic River (2003).

…a recovering drug addict in 21 Grams. Subsequent films include the domestic drama We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), a drama in which she portrayed the estranged wife of a deranged man who planned to kill the president; a remake of King Kong, in…