Alfonso Cuarón
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| Born | Alfonso Cuarón Orozco 28 November 1961 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
| Notable work | Full list |
| Spouses | Mariana Elizondo
(m. 1980; div. 1993)Annalisa Bugliani
(m. 2001; div. 2008) |
| Children | 3, including Jonás |
| Relatives | Carlos Cuarón (brother) |
| Awards | Full list |
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.
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.