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Alfonso Cuarón

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Alfonso Cuarón

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Also known as Alfonso Cuaron, Alfonso Cuarón Orozco, Alfonso Cuaron Orozco

Mexican filmmaker (born 1961)

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Alfonso Cuarón is a Mexican film director born in 1961 who has become one of the most acclaimed contemporary filmmakers in cinema. His work matters because he has shaped modern filmmaking through visually innovative and critically celebrated films that have influenced the global film industry.

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Mexico City, Mexico

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (US: /kwɑːˈroʊn/kwar-OHN; Spanish: [alˈfonso kwaˈɾon]; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Cuarón made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Sólo con tu pareja (1991) and directed the film adaptations A Little Princess (1995) and Great Expectations (1998). His…

Known for

  • Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — Self2026
  • Conversation avec Alfonso Cuarón — Self - subject, filmmaker2025
  • 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self2023
  • Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest2023
  • Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts — Self2022
  • I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón — Self2020
  • Road to Roma — Self2020
  • Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self2019
  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self2015

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Instance of
human
Given name
Alfonso
Gender
male
Citizenship
Mexico
Place of birth
Mexico City
Child
Jonás Cuarón
Occupation
television producer
Languages spoken
Spanish
Award
Bradbury Award
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Height
183
Number of children
3
Residence
New York City
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Alfonso Cuarón
date of birth
1961-11-00
nominated for
Academy Award for Best Picture
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Alfonso Cuarón
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Category:Films directed by Alfonso Cuarón
has works in the collection
Museum of Modern Art
social media followers
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birth name
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
start of work period
1983-00-00
member of
Writers Guild of America, East
influenced by
F. W. Murnau
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( US: /kwɑːˈroʊn/ kwar-OHN; Spanish: [alˈfonso kwaˈɾon] ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards and one Golden Lion as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

Cuarón made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Sólo con tu pareja (1991), and directed the film adaptations A Little Princess (1995), and Great Expectations (1998). His breakthrough came with the coming-of-age film Y tu mamá también (2001) which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won him the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. He gained greater prominence for directing the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), the dystopian drama Children of Men (2006), the science fiction drama Gravity (2013), and the semi-autobiographical drama Roma (2018). The latter two won him Academy Awards for Best Director. He also won Best Film Editing for Gravity and Best Cinematography for Roma.

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