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Alfonso Cuarón

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Alfonso Cuarón

Known for
Schindler's List (1993)

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Alfonso Cuarón is a screenwriter best known for Schindler's List.

23 Interesting Facts About Alfonso Cuarón

Interesting Facts (10)

  1. #001

    Alfonso Cuarón is a fan of Tim Burton.

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  2. #002

    When he was offered the third film to direct, Alfonso Cuarón had not read any of the Harry Potter books.

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  3. #003

    Alfonso Cuarón took on the directing of Life of Pi (2012) but had to leave the director's chair because of Children of Men (2006). Jean-Pierre Jeunet and then finally Ang Lee replaced him.

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  4. #004

    Alfonso Cuarón is one of the few directors to have directed films carrying all five modern MPAA ratings: G (A Little Princess), PG (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), PG-13 (Gravity), R (Great Expectations, Children of Men, Paris, je t'aime and Roma) and NC-17 (Y Tu Mamá También). In the last case, the film gave up that rating and was released unrated in the United States.

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  5. #005

    Alfonso Cuarón took on the directing of Runaway Jury (2003) but left the project a few months later.

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  6. #006

    Alfonso Cuarón was considered to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).

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  7. #007

    Alfonso Cuarón was determined to write and direct Hart's War (2002), but just as production was about to begin he decided to make Y tu mamá también (2001) instead.

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  8. #008

    Alfonso Cuarón turned down the chance to direct Addicted to Love (1997) and worked on A Little Princess (1995) instead.

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  9. #009

    Alfonso Cuarón was a friend of singer Ian Brown and offered to direct one of his future music videos.

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  10. #010

    Alfonso Cuarón was a mentor to actor and director Dean Paraskevopoulos.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #011

    Alfonso Cuarón took on the directing of Speed Racer (2008), which was to star Johnny Depp, but the job went to the Wachowski siblings.

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Career & Awards (8)

  1. #012

    Alfonso Cuarón became the first Mexican-born director to win the Academy Award for Best Director, for Gravity (2013).

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  2. #013

    With the same film, Alfonso Cuarón became one of ten directors to win the Golden Globe, the Directors Guild Award, the BAFTA and the Oscar, and the first director to achieve this twice, for Gravity (2013) and then Roma (2018). The others who have done so are Mike Nichols with The Graduate (1967), Miloš Forman with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough with Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone with Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg with Schindler's List (1993), Ang Lee with Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle with Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water (2017) and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant (2015).

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  3. #014

    Alfonso Cuarón became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated in the same year and for the same film in both the Best Director and Best Cinematography categories. He was nominated in both categories for Roma (2018). He was also nominated for the film in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture categories.

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  4. #015

    Alfonso Cuarón won the 2019 Oscar for Best Director for his work on Roma (2018).

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  5. #016

    Alfonso Cuarón directed three actors to Oscar nominations: Sandra Bullock, Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira.

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  6. #017

    Alfonso Cuarón was nominated at the Oscars in six different categories — Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay — and won in the first three categories.

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  7. #018

    Alfonso Cuarón won the 2019 Oscar for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Roma (2018).

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  8. #019

    Alfonso Cuarón directed two films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018).

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Life & Family (4)

  1. #020

    Alfonso Cuarón never read P. D. James's novel The Children of Men, on which the film Children of Men (2006) is based.

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  2. #021

    After divorcing his former wife Annalisa Bugliani, Alfonso Cuarón moved from New York, where he had been living with his children, and now lives in London.

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  3. #022

    Alfonso Cuarón is the father of Jonás Cuarón and Olmo Teodoro Cuarón.

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  4. #023

    Alfonso Cuarón is the brother of Carlos Cuarón.

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