Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is a screenwriter. He is one of four who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Dinelaris also wrote the book for the Broadway musical On Your Feet, which is about the life and career of Gloria Estefan. For this, he was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. In 2019, he formed his New York-based production company, Lexicon. He announced that its first feature film will be an adaptation of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, which Dinelaris will adapt into a screenplay and produce. That same year, he filmed the short film In This, Our Time, which he wrote and directed. Alexander Dinelaris Jr conducted the first workshop of Boman Irani's Spiral Bound. On February 8, 2023, it was announced that Alexander Dinelaris Jr is working with Residente to co-write a new film, Porto Rico. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Dinelaris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Washington Heights, New York, USA
- Writer and producer
- 7 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Alexander Dinelaris' films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 4
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 3
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 5
Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 2
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 4
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Alexander Dinelaris' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Alexander Dinelaris' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
Digger(2026)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Dovecote (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
The Mehta Boys(2024)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
In the Summers(2024)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Carmen(2022)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
The Absence of Eden(2023)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Bounce (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Revenant(2015)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all filmsOn Your Feet! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Petrichor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Porto Rico (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles, 8 of them dated from 2014 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Revenant (2015)
Highest rated
The Revenant (2015)
Most popular right now
Digger (2026)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
an Oscar, a Golden Globe and 1 other major award from 5 major nominations, 2015–2025.
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best First Feature
- Oscar, won · Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Golden Globe, won · Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Original Screenplay
+1 other major body · 1 win
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Original Screenplay
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Alexander Dinelaris' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 88th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 84th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 7 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved4
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the dialogue 55/100 and the plot and story 43/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Alexander Dinelaris' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Alexander Dinelaris work with?
People who share at least 2 of Alexander Dinelaris' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Alejandro G. Iñárritu shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Alejandro G. IñárrituShared titles: Digger (2026), The Revenant (2015), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Writers
- Nicolás GiacoboneShared titles: Digger (2026), The Revenant (2015), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Nicolás Giacobone
Producers
- Arnon MilchanShared titles: The Revenant (2015), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Arnon Milchan
