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Nicolás Giacobone

Nicolás Giacobone

Writing

Biography

Nicolás Giacobone is an Argentine writer and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He wrote a book of short stories, Algún Cristo(2001), and the novels The Crossed-Out Notebook (2018) and Bum Bum Bum (2020). His screenplay for the film John and the Hole was part of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolás Giacobone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Revenant
7.5

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

The Revenant

2015
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7.4

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014
Digger
N/A

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Digger

2026
John and the Hole
5.3

While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

John and the Hole

2021
Biutiful
7.2

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Biutiful

2010
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
6.8

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022
All Hail
6.4

A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.

All Hail

2022
Down the Rabbit Hole
6.7

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.

Down the Rabbit Hole

2024
Animal
6.4

Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.

Animal

2018
The Last Elvis
5.9

In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end factory job and an ex-wife who worries about how his obsessive behavior affects their young daughter, Lisa Marie. Feeling more connected to his persona as the King than to his own family, Gutiérrez retreats from reality until a tragic accident interrupts his plans and forces him to grapple with his real-world responsibilities.

The Last Elvis

2012
Desde el principio
5.0

In the darkness of a soundproof recording studio, a conversation sparks between two voice actors dealing with a shared tragedy. (montclairfilm.org)

Desde el principio

2017
Océano
7.0

This Wednesday at two o'clock in the morning the world will succumb under the waters.

Océano

2003