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Alfonso Cuarón

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Also known as Alfonso Cuaron, Alfonso Cuarón Orozco, Alfonso Cuaron Orozco

Mexican filmmaker (born 1961)

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Alfonso Cuarón is a male artist from Mexico who began his work period in 1983. He has been recognized in the Academy Award Best Director collection. His professional output includes five works listed in Crossref and two works in Open Library, where he is credited under the name Alfonso Cuaron.

Personal details indicate he was born in 1961 and has three children. He stands 183 units tall. In digital archives, he is categorized under the Commons category "Alfonso Cuarón." Social media metrics show 338,631 followers. On Last.fm, the artist Alfonso Cuarón has 2,610 listeners and a playcount of 6,036. He is referenced by 1,526 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
2

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Mexico
Active from
1961-11-28

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,610
Total plays
6,036

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Encyclopedic overview

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

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 and won him the Venice Film Festival Award for Best 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alfonso Cuarón” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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