Alfonso Cuarón

Mexican director and screenwriter

Also known as: Alfonso Cuarón Orozco

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In full:: Alfonso Cuarón Orozco

Born:: November 28, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico (age 63)

Awards And Honors:: Academy Award (2019); Golden Globe Award (2019); Academy Award (2014); Academy Award (2019): Cinematography; Academy Award (2019): Directing; Academy Award (2014): Directing; Academy Award (2014): Film Editing; Golden Globe Award (2019): Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language; Golden Globe Award (2019): Best Director - Motion Picture; Golden Globe Award (2014): Best Director - Motion Picture

Notable Works:: “Children of Men”; “Gravity”; “Great Expectations”; “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”; “Roma”; “Y tu mamá también”

Notable Family Members:: son of Alfredo Cuarón; married to Annalisa Bugliani (2001–2008); married to Mariana Elizondo (1980–1993); father of Jonás Cuarón (b. 1981); father of Tess Bu Cuarón (b. 2003); father of Olmo Teodoro Cuarón (b. 2005); brother of Carlos Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón (born November 28, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican director and screenwriter who earned an international reputation for fluid storytelling in a versatile range of genres. Cuarón studied film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (a school within the National Autonomous University of Mexico) but was expelled for having helped create, as part of a class project, a film that was controversially shot in English instead of Spanish. Though Cuarón feared he would never work in the cinematic arts, he eventually found work in Mexican television as a technician. That position led to television directing, which ...(100 of 571 words)

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