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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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Origin
Mexico
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1961-11-00
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birth name
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
start of work period
1983-00-00
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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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