alfonso cuaron

The superb, award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is a director, writer, producer, and editor, best known for his movies Children of Men, Gravity, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He is the first Mexico-born filmmaker to win the Best Director Oscar, and one of only four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Cuarón studied philosophy and then filmmaking at university in Mexico, and after graduating began working in Mexican TV. He landed his first big-screen opportunity as a director in 1991, Sólo con tu pareja, which went on to be a big hit in his native land. After working on the Showtime cable series Fallen Angels, he released his first United States produced movie, A Little Princess, in 1995. Since then he has gone on to achieve international success with such films as Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, and Gravity, which went on to win seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. His eighth film, Roma, was released in 2018, and also went on to achieve Oscar success, picking up three statuettes. In 2019 he signed an overall TV deal with Apple, and his first project is the forthcoming thriller series Disclaimer.

Cuarón regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Twitter, and Instagram, posting pictures and videos of his life around the movies.