Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (US: /kwɑːˈroʊn/kwar-OHN; Spanish: [alˈfonso kwaˈɾon]; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.

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. 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.

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Alfonso Cuarón Movies

Discover the best movies directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Explore the complete filmography, including critically acclaimed masterpieces, box office hits, and top-rated Alfonso Cuarón films ranked by score.

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Roma (2018)

Drama
Alfonso Cuarón's intimate portrait of 1970s Mexico City centers on Cleo, a live-in housekeeper navigating class tensions and personal upheaval within an upper-middle-class household. As the family patriarch vanishes and...
Score 7.6
2

Gravity (2013)

Drama Science Fiction Thriller
When a debris field destroys their spacecraft during a routine spacewalk, a medical engineer and a veteran astronaut become untethered in the silence of orbit. With communication severed and oxygen...
Score 7.2
3

Children of Men (2006)

Action Science Fiction Thriller
Twenty years of global infertility have ground civilization down to its last, desperate nerves. When a burned-out former activist named Theo stumbles into contact with a young woman carrying something...
Score 7.6
4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Adventure Fantasy
Third year at Hogwarts arrives with a darker mood than Harry has known before. Dementors patrol the school grounds, draining joy from anyone who wanders too close. A convicted murderer...
Score 8.0
5

Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

Drama Romance
Alfonso Cuarón's sun-scorched Mexican road movie follows two restless teenage boys, Tenoch and Julio, who invite a beautiful, marriage-weary Spanish woman named Luisa to join them on a spontaneous drive...
Score 7.4

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