RODRIGUEZ, Robert 1968(?)–

PERSONAL

Full name, Robert Anthony Rodriguez; born June 20, 1968 (some sources cite 1969), in San Antonio, TX; son of Cecilio G. (a sales manager) and Rebecca (a nurse) Rodriguez; married Elizabeth Avellan (a producer), January 9, 1990; children: Rocket Valentin, Racer Maximilliano, Rebel Antonio. Education: Attended the University of Texas at Austin, 1986–91, B.A., communications, 1993.

Addresses: Agent— International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career: Director, producer, cinematographer, editor, camera operator, and screenwriter. University of Texas, Austin, cartoonist for the Daily Texan, 1988–91; Los Hooligans Productions, Inc. (later known as Troublemaker Studios), president and chief executive officer, 1991—.

Member: Directors Guild of America.

Awards, Honors: Eighth Annual Third Coast Film and Video Competition Award, 1990, for Austin Stories; Independent Film Project, best first feature, Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize nomination, dramatic category, Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award and Critics Award nomination, Deauville Film Festival, 1993, Independent Spirit Award (with Carlos M. Gallardo), best first feature, Independent Spirit Award nomination, best director, 1994, all for El Mariachi; Distinguished Citizen Award, City of San Antonio, 1993; named Don Rodriguez, Hidalgo of San Antonio, 1993; Special Award, National Board of Review, 1993; Golden Palm Award nomination, Cannes International Film Festival, 1995, for Desperado; listed as one of the "twenty–five most powerful Hispanics in Hollywood," Hispanic, 1996; Silver Scream Award, Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, 1996, for From Dusk Till Dawn; ALMA Award nomination, outstanding Latino director of a feature film, 1999, for The Faculty; Berlinale Camera Award, Berlin International Film Festival, 1999; Outstanding Young Texas Award, Ex–Students' Association, 1999; ALMA Award, outstanding director in a motion picture, ALMA Award nomination, outstanding screenplay (original or adapted), 2002, both for Spy Kids; Imagen Award, best director, ASCAP Award, top box office films, 2003, both for Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams; Norman Lear Writer's Award, 2003; Golden Satellite Award, best original song, 2004, for Once upon a Time in Mexico; ASCAP Award, top box office films, 2004, for Spy Kids 3–D: Game Over; two Austin Cable Vision Awards for short films.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Intern, Seize the Day, Monterey Home Video, 1986.

Director, Austin Stories, Third Coast Film and Video Competition, 1990.

Director, producer, cinematographer, editor, animator, and sound effects, Bedhead (short film), University of Texas at Austin Films, 1991.

Director, Pretty Good Man (short film), 1991.

Director, producer, cinematographer, still photographer, editor, additional editor, sound and music editor, camera operator, and creator of special effects, El Mariachi, Columbia, 1992.

Director, producer, editor, and steadicam operator, Desperado, Columbia, 1995.

Segment director and editor, "The Misbehavers," Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995.

Director, executive producer, editor, camera operator, sound rerecording mixer, and steadicam operator, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1995.

Second unit director, Mimic, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1997.

(Uncredited) Director of stab scene, Scream 2, 1997.

Song producer ("After Dark") Commandments, Gramercy/Universal, 1997.

Director, editor, camera operator, mechanical department: XFX, Inc., sound rerecording mixer, and (uncredited) producer, The Faculty, Miramax, 1998.

Director, 10 More Minutes … Anatomy of a Shootout (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar, 1998.

Director, 10 Minute Film School (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar, 1998.

Executive producer, From Dusk 'til Dawn II: Texas Blood Money, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1999.

Executive producer, From Dusk 'til Dawn: The Hangman's Daughter, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1999.

Director, producer, editor, camera operator, visual effects supervisor, and sound rerecording mixer, Spy Kids, Miramax, 2001.

Director, producer, cinematographer, editor, production designer, visual effects supervisor, and sound effects editor, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Miramax, 2002.

Director, producer, cinematographer, editor, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, Spy Kids 3–D: Game Over, Miramax, 2003.

Editor, Film Is Dead: An Evening with Robert Rodriguez (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003.

Director, producer, cinematographer, editor, camera operator, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, Once upon a Time in Mexico, Dimension Films, 2003.

Director, producer, and editor, The Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Director, producer, and editor, Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Entertainment, 2004.

Director and editor, Inside Troublemaker Studios (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Film Appearances:

Trackdown, United Artists, 1975.

Counter man, Invasion U.S.A., Cannon, 1985.

Full Tilt Boogie (documentary), Miramax, 1997.

Pleasant Dreams, 1997.

Narrator, 10 More Minutes … Anatomy of a Shootout (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar, 1998.

Narrator, 10 Minute Film School (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar, 1998.

Bull boy, Bullfighter, Phaedra Cinema, 1999.

Punk #2, Famous (also known as Lisa Picard Is Famous ), 2000.

Robert Jimenez, Delayed, 2002.

Himself, Film Is Dead: An Evening with Robert Rodriquez (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003.

Himself, El Mariachi: 10 Years Later (documentary), 2003.

Himself, Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Himself, Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Himself, Inside Troublemaker Studios (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Himself, The Good, the Bad & the Bloody: Inside KNB EFX (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Himself, The Anti–Hero's Journey (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Television Work; Movies:

Director and editor, Roadracers (also known as Rebel Highway ), Showtime, 1994.

Post–production supervisor, The Outsider, Showtime, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

First cop, The Take, USA Network, 1990.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Interviewee, Anatomy of Horror, UPN, 1995.

Masters of Fantasy: John Carpenter, Sci–Fi Channel, 1998.

Himself, Hollywood Goes to Hell, 2000.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Chicago SWAT Lieutenant, Deadline, NBC, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Juan Cabrini, City Kids, ABC, 1992.

Late Night with David Letterman, 1993.

Manny Perez, "The Friendly Neighborhood Dealer," New York Undercover, Fox, 1994.

Marco Vargas, "Bombshell," Nash Bridges, CBS, 1997.

Himself, The Big Breakfast, Channel 4, 2001.

Himself, Breakfast, BBC, 2002.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Bedhead (short film), University of Texas at Austin Films, 1991.

El Mariachi, Columbia, 1992.

Desperado, Columbia, 1995.

"The Misbehavers," Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995.

The Faculty, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1998.

(Story only) From Dusk 'til Dawn: The Hangman's Daughter, Miramax/Dimension Films, 1999.

Predator 3, Twentieth Century–Fox, 2000.

Spy Kids, Miramax, 2001.

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Miramax, 2002.

Spy Kids 3–D: Game Over, Miramax, 2003.

Once upon a Time in Mexico, Miramax, 2003.

Film Scores:

Bedhead (short film), University of Texas at Austin Films, 1991.

Spy Kids, Miramax, 2001.

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Miramax, 2002.

Spy Kids 3–D: Game Over, Miramax, 2003.

Once upon a Time in Mexico, Miramax, 2003.

The Good, the Bad & the Bloody: Inside KNB EFX (documentary short film), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

The Anti–Hero's Journey (documentary short film), Dimension Films, 2004.

Film Additional Music:

Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Miramax, 2004.

Television Movies:

Roadracers (also known as Rebel Highway ), Showtime, 1994.

Nonfiction:

Rebel without a Crew: How a Twenty–three Year Old Filmmaker Became a Hollywood Player, Dutton, 1995.

Roadracers: The Making of a Degenerate Hot Rod Flick, Faber, 1998.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Contemporary Hispanic Biography, Volume 3, Gale Group, 2003.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, St. James Press, 1996.

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, April 27, 2001, p. 120; August 9, 2002, p. 40; April 23, 2004, p. 18.

Newsweek, August 12, 2002, p. 62.

People Weekly, August 4, 2003, p. 101.

Rolling Stone, March 18, 1993, pp. 45–49.

Time, March 8, 1993, p. 66; July 28, 2003, p. 60.