Alfonso Cuar贸n

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Alfonso Cuar贸n Orozco (US: /kw蓱藧藞ro蕣n/kwar-OHN; Spanish: [al藞fonso kwa藞删on]; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Cuar贸n made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy S贸lo 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 mam谩 tambi茅n (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfonso Cuar贸n, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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