Alejandro G. Iñárritu wins the Oscar for Best Director — mashable.com

Alejandro G. Iñárritu made history in 2006 by becoming the first Mexican director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, that time for his drama Babel. On Sunday night at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Iñárritu finally won the award, thanks to the comedy Birdman, making it two years in a row that a Mexican-born director has taken home the Oscar. Birdman beat out Richard Linklater's epic Boyhood, in what most observers said was a too-close-to-call race entering the Oscars.

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