Valuable chiral building blocks were synthesized with excellent enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity through tandem hydrogenation of (Z)‐β‐ketoenamides, which were in turn prepared by the direct condensation of 1,3‐diketones with acetamide (see scheme). The chiral amino alcohol products can be converted into useful γ‐aryl isobutylamines through hydrogenolysis with Pd/C. R1=aryl, heteroaryl,