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Alfonso Cuarón
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Person

Alfonso Cuarón

b. 1961

Mexican filmmaker (born 1961)

Born
28 Nov 1961 · Mexico City
Part ofMexico1466 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 75 years
  1. 28 Nov 1961BornBorn in Mexico City
  2. 2001AwardBest Screenplay Award (Venice Film Festival)
  3. 2004AwardBritish Academy Children's Awards
  4. 2007AwardBAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
  5. 2013AwardDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
  6. 2014AwardBAFTA Award for Best Direction
  7. 2014AwardAcademy Award for Best Director
  8. 2014AwardAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
  9. 2014AwardBAFTA Award for Best British Film
  10. 2014AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Director
  11. 2014AwardHugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
  12. 2018AwardDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
  13. 2018AwardTelluride Film Festival Silver Medallion

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1961 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (US: 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.

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