Universidad Iberoamericana

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February 2024 Announcement of a new English-language film with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, set to star Tom Cruise.
2023 Supported Javier Milei in the Argentine general election.
July 2023 Vicente Fox shared a controversial tweet criticizing Morena presidential contenders, which was perceived as xenophobic and antisemitic. The tweet claimed that only Xóchitl Gálvez was truly Mexican, despite Fox himself having German and Spanish ancestry.
July 23 2023 Fox apologized to the Jewish community after widespread criticism, claiming he had not created the original image but only retweeted it, and affirming his 'profound respect for the Jewish community'.
2022 Released Bardo.
2022 Iñárritu co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the Spanish-language film 'Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths', which premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Lion.
2022 'Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths' earned 1 Academy Award nomination.
August 7 2021 Vicente Fox and his wife Martha Sahagún were preventively admitted to a hospital in León, Guanajuato after being infected with COVID-19, experiencing mild symptoms during the pandemic in Mexico.
2020 Fox congratulated Joe Biden on winning the United States presidential election, defeating Trump.
2020 Left the High Times board of directors over concerns about the company's stock offering.
2019 Insulza participated in the inaugural meeting of the Puebla Group, a conference of left-leaning political leaders held in Buenos Aires, marking a significant moment in his later political career.
2019 Directed 'Devil Between the Legs', one of his most recent film works.
2019 Made Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters in France.
2019 Became the first Latin American to serve as president of the jury for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
2018 Joined the High Times board of directors.
2018 Fox endorses the PRI candidate José Antonio Meade in the presidential election.
2018 Begins serving as a senator for the Arica y Parinacota Region.
2018 Produced 'Air Moves You' commercial for Nike
2017 Awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena.
2017 Alejandro González Iñárritu produced and directed the film 'Flesh and Sand'
September 2017 Fox released a video criticizing Trump's decision to end the DACA program, calling it 'cruel and heartless' and accusing Trump of 'failing America'.
July 2017 Served as an international observer to the unofficial Venezuelan referendum, giving a speech comparing it to the 2000 Mexican elections. Was subsequently declared persona non grata by the Venezuelan government.
May 2017 Fox began appearing in a series of humorous videos denouncing Donald Trump, including a fake presidential candidacy announcement video released in September.
March 1 2017 Fox appeared on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, reiterating his stance against Mexico funding Trump's border wall.
January 25 2017 Fox appeared in an interview with Anderson Cooper, continuing to assert that Mexico should not pay for Trump's border wall.
January 12 2017 Fox tweeted 'America Will Survive', briefly breaking from his consistent criticism of Trump.
2016 Co-signed a letter to Ban Ki-moon calling for a more humane drug policy.
2016 Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor for The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016 Won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on The Revenant, marking the first time in 65 years that a director has won the award in two consecutive years.
2016 Tom Hardy nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Revenant
2016 Awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California.
November 2016 After Trump's election victory, Fox wrote an editorial in the International Business Times lamenting the election result and criticizing Trump's approach.
September 2016 Fox smashed a Trump piñata in Los Angeles during a radio show appearance, symbolically demonstrating Trump's 'emptiness', which he later explained represented Trump having 'no brains'.
September 9 2016 Fox received and publicly mocked the first campaign donation email from Trump's campaign on Twitter.
August 31 2016 Fox publicly criticized Trump's visit to Mexico, calling it a 'desperate move' and stating that Trump is 'not welcome in Mexico'.
February 2016 Vicente Fox gave an interview to Univision's Jorge Ramos, strongly criticizing Donald Trump's border wall proposal, declaring 'I am not going to pay for that fucking wall' and calling Trump a 'crazy guy' and 'false prophet'.
2015 Directed 'Bleak Street', demonstrating his continued active filmmaking.
2015 Received the Sundance Institute's Vanguard Leadership Award for the 'originality and independent spirit' of his films.
2015 Honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at its Art + Film Gala.
2015 Won Best Director for The Revenant, becoming the third director to win the award back-to-back after John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
2015 Birdman receives multiple Oscar nominations, including Michael Keaton for Best Actor and Edward Norton for Best Supporting Actor
2015 'The Revenant' was highly acclaimed, earning 3 Academy Awards out of 12 nominations, 5 BAFTA Awards out of 8 nominations, and 3 Golden Globe Awards out of 4 nominations.
2015 Won the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directing, the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, and three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Directing) for Birdman, becoming the first Mexican to win three Academy Awards in one year.
2015 Directed The Revenant, taking on roles of director, producer, and writer.
2015 Received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
2014 Joined four other Latin American presidents at the One Young World Summit in Dublin, Ireland, discussing the Telefónica Millennial Survey and focusing on promoting leadership and eradicating corruption through education.
2014 Won three Academy Awards for Birdman: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
2014 Directed Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), serving as director, producer, and writer.
February 2014 Wrote an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail advocating for the legalization of all drugs.
2013 Participated in a debate at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye, discussing drug policy with Chris Bryant and John Ralston Saul.

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