Alfonso Cuaron

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Nationality: Mexican
Birthdate: 11/28/1961
Birthplace: Mexico

biography

A Mexican director who has had a rapid rise in Hollywood, Alfonso Cuaron became established in Mexican TV and made a heralded film about AIDS, "Solo Con Tu Pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria" (1991). Hollywood, in the form of Sydney Pollack, took notice and brought Cuaron to the US to helm an episode of the Showtime series "Fallen Angels". The director earned a CableACE Award for his work and moved into features with "The Little Princess" (1995), a critically-acclaimed box office dud that was the third go-around for the Frances Hodgson Burnett story. First shot in 1917 as a silent starring Continued

Credits

Producer
2009
Screenplay
2007
Director
2007
Producer
2006
screenplay
2006
Director
2006
Producer
2005
Executive Producer
2004
Director
2001
Screenplay
2001
Director
1998
Director
1995
Screenplay
2nd unit director
Executive Producer
Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
1991 
Made first feature, a comedy about AIDS, "Solo Con Tu Pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria"
1993 
Directed episode of Showtime series "Fallen Angels"
1995 
Won widespread critical acclaim for "A Little Princess"
1997 
Directed version of Dickens' "Great Expectations"
2002 
Co-wrote (with brother Carlos) and directed "Y Tu Mama Tambien/And Your Mother Too", first Spanish-language film in more than a decade; received nominations for a BAFTA for for Best Screenplay (Original) and an Oscar nomination for Original Screenplay
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