Alfonso_Cuarón

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{{Infobox Actor
| name = Alfonso Cuarón
| image = AlfonsoCuaron 20050923.jpg
| imagesize =
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| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1961|11|28}}
| location = [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]
| yearsactive = 1983 – present
| birthname = Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
| academyawards = '''[[Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2001 ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' '''[[Academy Award for Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2006 ''[[Children of Men]]'' '''[[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2006 ''[[Children of Men]]''
| baftaawards = '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film not in the English Language]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2001 ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2001 ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best British Film|Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film]]''' '''Nominated:''' 2004 ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film not in the English Language]]''' '''Won:''' 2006 ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]''
| spouse = Mariana Elizondo (1980 - 1993) Annalisa Bugliani (2001 - )
}}

'''Alfonso Cuarón Orozco''' (b. [[November 28]], [[1961]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-nominated [[Mexican]] [[film director]], [[screenwriter]] and [[film producer]].

==Childhood==
Alfonso Cuarón was born in [[México City]]. He is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a cardiologist who worked for the United Nations' [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] sector for many years.

==Early career==

He studied Philosophy at the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] (UNAM) and filmmaking at CUEC ([[Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos]]), a faculty of the same University. There, he met director [[Carlos Marcovich]] and [[cinematographer]] [[Emmanuel Lubezki]], and they made what would be his first [[short film]], ''Vengeance is mine''. The controversy caused by the fact that the film was shot in English was the reason he was expelled from the [[Film School]]. He began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director. Cuarón's television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several [[Latin American]] film productions including ''[[Gaby: A True Story]]'' and ''[[Romero]]'', and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

==Sólo con tu pareja==

''[[Sólo con tu pareja]]'' was a sex comedy about a womanizing businessman (played by [[Daniel Giménez Cacho]]), who after spurning a hot nurse, is fooled into believing he's contracted [[HIV]]; the film, which also starred Cabaret singer [[Astrid Hadad]] and model/actress [[Claudia Ramírez]] —who Cuarón was linked to between 1989 and 1993— was a big hit in Mexico, and was enthusiastically received around the world. Director [[Sydney Pollack]] was so impressed with ''[[Sólo con tu pareja]]'' that he hired Cuarón to direct an episode of ''[[Fallen Angels (TV series)|Fallen Angels]]'', a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993; other directors who worked on the series included [[Steven Soderbergh]], [[Jonathan Kaplan]], [[Peter Bogdanovich]], and [[Tom Hanks]].

==International success==

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, ''[[A Little Princess (1995 film)|A Little Princess]]'', an adaptation of [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]'s classic novel. Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Great Expectations (1998 film)|Great Expectations]]'' starring [[Ethan Hawke]], [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], and [[Robert De Niro]].

Cuarón's next project found him returning to Mexico with a Spanish-speaking cast to film ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'', starring [[Gael Garcia Bernal]] and [[Diego Luna]]. It was a provocative and controversial road comedy about two sexually obsessed teenagers who take an extended road trip with an attractive married woman in her late twenties. The film's open portrayal of sexuality and frequent rude humor, as well as the politically and socially relevant asides, made the film an international hit and a major success with critics. Cuarón shared an [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother [[Carlos Cuarón]].

In 2003, Cuarón directed the third film in the successful ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Potter fans for his approach to the film. Cuarón's rather more aggressive adaptation (with a darker tone, costume changes, omitted subplots and other changes to the accepted continuity) came as something of a shock to many fans.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} At the time of the movie's release, however, author [[J.K. Rowling]] said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.<ref> [http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=76 J.K. Rowling] Accessed [[17 January]] [[2007]]. </ref> Critically, the film was also better received than the first two installments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

Cuarón's newest feature, ''[[Children of Men]]'', an adaptation of the [[P. D. James]] novel starring [[Clive Owen]], [[Julianne Moore]] and [[Michael Caine]], has received wide critical acclaim, including three [[Academy Award]] nominations. Cuarón himself received two nominations for his work on the film in both Editing and Adapted Screenplay.

He created the production and distribution company [[Esperanto Films]], which has credits on the films ''[[Duck Season]]'' and ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]''.

==Awards and nominations==

*''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' (2001)
**[[Venice Film Festival]] '''Best Screenplay Winner'''
*''[[Children of Men]]'' (2006)
**[[Venice Film Festival]] '''Laterna Magica Prize Winner'''

== Filmography ==
=== Feature films ===
*''[[Sólo con tu pareja]]'' (1991)
*''[[A Little Princess (1995 film)|A Little Princess]]'' (1995)
*''[[Great Expectations (1998 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1998)
*''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' (2001)
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' (2004)
*''[[Children of Men]]'' (2006)
*''[[Maximum Ride]] (2008)
*''[[The Memory of Running]]'' (2009) (rumored)
*''[[The History of Love]]'' (2009) (rumored)
*''[[México '68]]'' (2009)

=== Short films ===
*''Who's He Anyway'' (1983)
*''Vengeance Is Mine'' (1983) ''Co-director''
*''Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo'' (1983)
*''[[Paris, je t'aime]]'' (2006) ''(segment "Parc Monceau")''
*''[[The Shock Doctrine (film)|The Shock Doctrine]]'' (2007) Co-writer (directed by his son [[Jonás Cuarón]]) and Producer<ref>http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film</ref>.

=== Documentary films ===
*''The Possibility of Hope'' (2007) ''Short''

=== TV ===
*''Hora Marcada'' (1986) ''(episodes "Ángel Pérez", "El taxi", "Zangamanga", "No estoy jugando", "A veces regresa")''
*''[[Fallen Angels (TV series)|Fallen Angels]]'' (1993) ''(episode "Murder, Obliquely")''

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{imdb name|id=0190859|name=Alfonso Cuarón}}

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