Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (US: /kwɑːˈroʊn/ kwah-ROHN,[1] Spanish: [alˈfon.so kwaˈɾon] ⓘ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
"Cuarón" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Cuarón (surname).
Alfonso Cuarón
- Film director
- film producer
- screenwriter
- cinematographer
- film editor
1981–present
3, including Jonás Cuarón
Carlos Cuarón (brother)
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 later two won him Academy Awards for Best Director. He also won Best Film Editing for Gravity and Best Cinematography for Roma.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Cuarón was born in Mexico City, the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a doctor specializing in nuclear medicine, and Cristina Orozco, a pharmaceutical biochemist.[3] He has a sister Christina, and two brothers; Carlos, also a filmmaker,[4] and Alfredo, a conservation biologist.[5] Cuarón studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and filmmaking at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos,[6] a school within the same university. There he met the director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki,[6] and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance Is Mine.[7]
Style[edit]
Cuarón often uses long takes and moving cameras to emulate a documentary film style.[36]
Personal life[edit]
Cuarón is a vegetarian[36][37] and has been living in London since 2000.[38]
Cuarón's first marriage was to Mariana Elizondo with whom he has a son, Jonás Cuarón, born in 1981. Jonás is also a film director, known for Year of the Nail and Desierto.[39] Alfonso's second marriage, from 2001 to 2008 was to Italian actress and freelance journalist Annalisa Bugliani, with whom he has two children.[39]
He has publicly shown his fascination for the Esperanto language and his support for the Esperanto movement.[40] He called his production company Esperanto Filmoj. In October 2023, Cuarón signed an open letter from artists to Joe Biden, President of the United States, calling for a ceasefire of Israeli bombardment in Gaza.[41]