Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Mexican filmmaker who won three Academy Awards this year for "Birdman," including statuettes for best director and picture, will be honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in November at its fifth annual Art + Film gala, organizers will announce this week.
Artist James Turrell, the subject of a major LACMA retrospective in 2013, also will be honored. The museum said that the gala will take place Nov. 7 and that Leonardo DiCaprio and trustee Eva Chow are returning as co-chairs of the event.
DiCaprio stars in Iñárritu's upcoming movie, "The Revenant," which is in post-production and is expected to be released later this year.