Alfonso Cuaron

Premiere: Director Alfonso Cuaron at the New York premiere of Warner Brothers' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 5/23/2004 Photo: Jim Spellman, Wireimage.com

Biography

Born 11/28/1961

A Mexican director who has had a rapid rise in Hollywood, Alfonso Cuaron became established in Mexican TV and made a heralded film about AIDS, "Solo Con Tu Pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria" (1991). Hollywood, in the form of Sydney Pollack, took notice and brought Cuaron to the US to helm an...
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Awards

  • In 2007, received BAFTA for Film Not in the English Language
  • In 2003, received Independent Spirit Awards for Best Foreign Film
  • In 2002, received Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Highlights

  • In 2007, Under the newly formed independent production co., signed a deal with Universal's Focus Features to finance and co-own five movies, which will have a combined budget of around $100 million
  • In 2007, Formed an independent production co. with fellow Mexican filmmakers, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
  • In 2006, Produced Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" through his company Esperanto Films

Family & Companions

  • Carlos Cuaron: brother (born c. 1966; co-wrote "Y Tu Mama Tambien")
  • Jonah Cuaron: son (born c. 1983)

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