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 Alfonso Cuar��n Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuar��n decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitaci��n Cinematogr��fica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morning and in the afternoon he went to the C.U.E.C. (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematogr��ficos). During that time he met many people who would later become his collaborators and friends. One of them was Luis Estrada. Cuaron also became good friends with Carlos Marcovich and Emmanuel Lubezki. Luis Estrada directed a short called "Vengance is Mine", on which Alfonso and Emmanuel collaborated. The film was in English, a fact which bothered many teachers of the C.U.E.C. such as Marcela Fern��ndez Violante. The disagreement caused such arguments that in 1985, Alfonso was expelled from the university.During his time studying at C.U.E.C. he met Mariana Elizondo, and with her he had his first son, Jon��s Cuar��n. After Alfonso was expelled, he thought he could never be a director and so went on to work in a Museum so he could sustain his family. One day, Jos�� Luis Garc��a Agraz and Fernando C��Mara went to the museum and made an offer to Cuar��n. They asked him to work as cable person in "La v��spera (1982)", a job which was to prove to be his salvation. After that he was assistant director in Garcia Agraz's "Nocaut (1984)", as well as numerous other films.He was also second unit director in "Gaby: A True Story (1987)", and co-wrote and directed some episodes in the series "A Hora Marcada (1967)". One New Year's Eve, he decided he would not continue to be an assistant director, and with his brother Carlos started writing what would be his first feature film: "S��lo con tu pareja (1991)" (Love in the time of Hysteria). After the screenplay was written, the problem became how to get financial backing for the movie. I.M.C.I.N.E. (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia), which supports movies financially, had already decided which projects it would support that year, much to Alfonso's initial chagrin. However, the director of one of those already-chosen projects was unable to direct it, so his project was canceled, and "S��lo con tu pareja" took its place. Despite this being chosen, there was a lot of tension between Alfonso and the I.M.C.I.N.E. executives. Nevertheless, after the movie was finished, it was a huge success. In Toronto festival the films won many awards, and Alfonso started to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Sydney Pollack was the first one to invite him to shoot in Hollywood. He proposed a feature film to be directed by Alfonso, but the project didn't work and was canceled. Alfonso moved to Los Angeles without anything concrete, and stayed with some friends, as he had no money. Soon after that, Pollack called him again to direct an episode called "Murder, Obliquely (1993)" of the series "Fallen Angels (1993)", that was the first job he had in U.S., and also the first time he worked with Alan Rickman.After a while, and no real directing jobs, Alfonso wanted to direct something as he needed money. He finally signed a contract with Warner Brothers to direct the film Addicted to Love (1995). However, one night, he read the screenplay for another film, A Little Princess (1995) and fell in love with it. He talked to Warner Brothers and after some meetings he gave up directing "Addicted to Love" in order to do "A Little Princess". Even thought it wasn't a great box office success, the film received two nominations for the Oscars, and won many other awards. After "A Little Princess" Alfonso developed a project with Richard Gere starring. The project was canceled, but Cuar��n got an offer from Twentieth Century Fox to direct the modern adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations (1998). He initially didn't want to direct it but the studio insisted, and in the end he accepted it. The experience was very painful and difficult for him mainly because there was never a definitive screenplay.He then reunited with producer Jorge Vergara and founded both Anhelo Productions and Moonson Productions. Anhelo's first picture was also Alfonso's next film, the erotic road movie "And Your Mother Too (2001)", which was a huge success. During the promotion of the film in Venice, Alfonso met the cinema critic Annalisa Bugliani. They started dating and married that same year. "Children of Men (2006)" was to be Alfonso's next film, a futuristic, dystopian story. During the pre-production of the film, Warner Brothers invited Alfonso to direct the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)", an offer which he accepted after some consideration. The film would prove to be the greatest box office success of his career.In 2003, he had a daughter named Tess Bu Cuar��n, and in February 2005 another son, called Olmo Teodoro Cuar��n. Alfonso Cuar��n signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers, which allowed his films to be distributed world-wide. He directed one five-minute segment of the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006) with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier. His next project, the futuristic film Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 having been nominated for three Academy Awards. After his youngest son was diagnosed with autism and the divorce from Annalisa Bugliani he took a break from directing and settled in London where he plans to work on his next projects.In 2013, Alfonso directed the space thriller Gravity (2013), which would go win 7 academy awards.Alfonso is the only filmmaker to have ever won twice for a clean sweep for the awards, for "Gravity" and "Roma", for Best Director at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
Bio:
Alfonso Cuar��n Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuar��n decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitaci��n Cinematogr��fica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morning and in the afternoon he went to the C.U.E.C. (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematogr��ficos). During that time he met many people who would later become his collaborators and friends. One of them was Luis Estrada. Cuaron also became good friends with Carlos Marcovich and Emmanuel Lubezki. Luis Estrada directed a short called "Vengance is Mine", on which Alfonso and Emmanuel collaborated. The film was in English, a fact which bothered many teachers of the C.U.E.C. such as Marcela Fern��ndez Violante. The disagreement caused such arguments that in 1985, Alfonso was expelled from the university.During his time studying at C.U.E.C. he met Mariana Elizondo, and with her he had his first son, Jon��s Cuar��n. After Alfonso was expelled, he thought he could never be a director and so went on to work in a Museum so he could sustain his family. One day, Jos�� Luis Garc��a Agraz and Fernando C��Mara went to the museum and made an offer to Cuar��n. They asked him to work as cable person in "La v��spera (1982)", a job which was to prove to be his salvation. After that he was assistant director in Garcia Agraz's "Nocaut (1984)", as well as numerous other films.He was also second unit director in "Gaby: A True Story (1987)", and co-wrote and directed some episodes in the series "A Hora Marcada (1967)". One New Year's Eve, he decided he would not continue to be an assistant director, and with his brother Carlos started writing what would be his first feature film: "S��lo con tu pareja (1991)" (Love in the time of Hysteria). After the screenplay was written, the problem became how to get financial backing for the movie. I.M.C.I.N.E. (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia), which supports movies financially, had already decided which projects it would support that year, much to Alfonso's initial chagrin. However, the director of one of those already-chosen projects was unable to direct it, so his project was canceled, and "S��lo con tu pareja" took its place. Despite this being chosen, there was a lot of tension between Alfonso and the I.M.C.I.N.E. executives. Nevertheless, after the movie was finished, it was a huge success. In Toronto festival the films won many awards, and Alfonso started to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Sydney Pollack was the first one to invite him to shoot in Hollywood. He proposed a feature film to be directed by Alfonso, but the project didn't work and was canceled. Alfonso moved to Los Angeles without anything concrete, and stayed with some friends, as he had no money. Soon after that, Pollack called him again to direct an episode called "Murder, Obliquely (1993)" of the series "Fallen Angels (1993)", that was the first job he had in U.S., and also the first time he worked with Alan Rickman.After a while, and no real directing jobs, Alfonso wanted to direct something as he needed money. He finally signed a contract with Warner Brothers to direct the film Addicted to Love (1995). However, one night, he read the screenplay for another film, A Little Princess (1995) and fell in love with it. He talked to Warner Brothers and after some meetings he gave up directing "Addicted to Love" in order to do "A Little Princess". Even thought it wasn't a great box office success, the film received two nominations for the Oscars, and won many other awards. After "A Little Princess" Alfonso developed a project with Richard Gere starring. The project was canceled, but Cuar��n got an offer from Twentieth Century Fox to direct the modern adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations (1998). He initially didn't want to direct it but the studio insisted, and in the end he accepted it. The experience was very painful and difficult for him mainly because there was never a definitive screenplay.He then reunited with producer Jorge Vergara and founded both Anhelo Productions and Moonson Productions. Anhelo's first picture was also Alfonso's next film, the erotic road movie "And Your Mother Too (2001)", which was a huge success. During the promotion of the film in Venice, Alfonso met the cinema critic Annalisa Bugliani. They started dating and married that same year. "Children of Men (2006)" was to be Alfonso's next film, a futuristic, dystopian story. During the pre-production of the film, Warner Brothers invited Alfonso to direct the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)", an offer which he accepted after some consideration. The film would prove to be the greatest box office success of his career.In 2003, he had a daughter named Tess Bu Cuar��n, and in February 2005 another son, called Olmo Teodoro Cuar��n. Alfonso Cuar��n signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers, which allowed his films to be distributed world-wide. He directed one five-minute segment of the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006) with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier. His next project, the futuristic film Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 having been nominated for three Academy Awards. After his youngest son was diagnosed with autism and the divorce from Annalisa Bugliani he took a break from directing and settled in London where he plans to work on his next projects.In 2013, Alfonso directed the space thriller Gravity (2013), which would go win 7 academy awards.Alfonso is the only filmmaker to have ever won twice for a clean sweep for the awards, for "Gravity" and "Roma", for Best Director at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
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He is the first Mexican-born director to win the Oscar for Best Director, achieving the feat for Gravity (2013).When he accepted the Golden Globe award for Best Director in 2014 for Gravity (2013), Cuaron apologized for his poor English, especially to his star Sandra Bullock, for scaring her on location during production when he said what sounded like, " I'm going to give you herpes" when he actually had said, in his thick Spanish accent, "I'm going to give you [an] ear piece.".He is friends with directors Guillermo del Toro, Mira Nair, Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Terry George and Terry Gilliam.He's a fan of Tim Burton.He has never read the novel 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James in which is film Children of Men (2006) is based on.He had never read any of the Harry Potter books when he was offered to direct the third film.He is one of 10 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same film, and the first to have done this twice - for Gravity (2013) and then Roma (2018). The others to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List (1993), Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water (2017), and Alejandro G. I?��rritu for The Revenant (2015).Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.Alfonso Cuar��n becomes the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for the Academy Awards for both Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year and for the same film. He was nominated in both categories for his work on Roma (2018). He received additional nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for the film as well.After divorcing from his ex-wife, Annalisa Bugliani, he moved from New York where they lived with their children, and now lives in London.He was attached to direct Life of Pi (2012), but due to the production of Children of Men (2006), he had to step aside the director's chair. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and then finally Ang Lee replaced him.Was attached to direct Speed Racer (2008) with Johnny Depp in lead, but the job went to Wachowski brothers.In 2007, he was one of 10 Mexican Oscar-nominees. The others were Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Guillermo del Toro, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Navarro, Emmanuel Lubezki, Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta and Fernando C��mara.Cuar��n is one of the few directors who has directed films that have received all five modern MPAA ratings: G (A Little Princess), PG (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), PG-13 (Gravity), R (Great Expectations, Children of Men, Paris, je t'aime and Roma) and NC-17 (Y Tu Mam�� Tambi��n). In the last case, the film surrendered said rating and was released unrated in the United States.Was considered to direct The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).Was considered to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).He was set to write/direct the film Hart's War (2002) but when production was about to begin he decided to do And Your Mother Too (2001) instead.He became attached to direct the film Runaway Jury (2003) but after a few months he left the project.Father of Tess Bu Cuar��n, Jon��s Cuar��n and Olmo Teodoro Cuar��n.One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].He turned down the chance to direct Addicted to Love (1997) to work instead on A Little Princess (1995).To date, only one of four people to have won the Best Director Oscar more than once without any of those films having won the Oscar for Best Picture. His two wins are for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018). The other three individuals are Frank Borzage for directing 7th Heaven (1927) and Bad Girl (1931), George Stevens for directing A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956), and Ang Lee for directing Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012).He is friends with singer Ian Brown and offered to direct one of his future videos.Directed 3 actresses to Oscar nominations: Sandra Bullock, Yalitza Aparicio, and Marina de Tavira.He was the mentor of actor/director Dean Paraskevopoulos.Won the 2019 Academy Award in the Best Director category for his work on Roma (2018).Brother of Carlos Cuar��n.He was the original director of the film The Perez Family (1995), but pulled out before production started.Has been nominated in six different categories at the Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, winning Oscars in the first three categories.Alfonso Cuar��n won the 2019 Academy Award in the Best Cinematography category for his work on Roma (2018). |
| Name: |
Alfonso Cuar��n |
Type: |
Producer,Writer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Business scope: |
Producer,Writer,Director |
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Producer,Writer,Director |
| Model rank: |
154 |
| Last update: |
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| Height: |
6' (1.83 m) |
| Biography: |
Alfonso Cuar��n Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn\'t receive hi |
| Trivia: |
He is the first Mexican-born director to win the Oscar for Best Director, achieving the feat for Gravity (2013).When he accepted the Golden Globe award for Best Director in 2014 for Gravity (2013), Cuaron apologized for his poor English, especially to his star Sandra Bullock, for scaring her on location during production when he said what sounded like, " I'm going to give you herpes" when he actually had said, in his thick Spanish accent, "I'm going to give you [an] ear piece.".He is friends with directors Guillermo del Toro, Mira Nair, Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Terry George and Terry Gilliam.He's a fan of Tim Burton.He has never read the novel 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James in which is film Children of Men (2006) is based on.He had never read any of the Harry Potter books when he was offered to direct the third film.He is one of 10 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same film, and the first to have done this twice - for Gravity (2013) and then Roma (2018). The others to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List (1993), Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water (2017), and Alejandro G. I?��rritu for The Revenant (2015).Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.Alfonso Cuar��n becomes the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for the Academy Awards for both Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year and for the same film. He was nominated in both categories for his work on Roma (2018). He received additional nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for the film as well.After divorcing from his ex-wife, Annalisa Bugliani, he moved from New York where they lived with their children, and now lives in London.He was attached to direct Life of Pi (2012), but due to the production of Children of Men (2006), he had to step aside the director's chair. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and then finally Ang Lee replaced him.Was attached to direct Speed Racer (2008) with Johnny Depp in lead, but the job went to Wachowski brothers.In 2007, he was one of 10 Mexican Oscar-nominees. The others were Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Guillermo del Toro, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Navarro, Emmanuel Lubezki, Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta and Fernando C��mara.Cuar��n is one of the few directors who has directed films that have received all five modern MPAA ratings: G (A Little Princess), PG (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), PG-13 (Gravity), R (Great Expectations, Children of Men, Paris, je t'aime and Roma) and NC-17 (Y Tu Mam�� Tambi��n). In the last case, the film surrendered said rating and was released unrated in the United States.Was considered to direct The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).Was considered to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).He was set to write/direct the film Hart's War (2002) but when production was about to begin he decided to do And Your Mother Too (2001) instead.He became attached to direct the film Runaway Jury (2003) but after a few months he left the project.Father of Tess Bu Cuar��n, Jon��s Cuar��n and Olmo Teodoro Cuar��n.One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].He turned down the chance to direct Addicted to Love (1997) to work instead on A Little Princess (1995).To date, only one of four people to have won the Best Director Oscar more than once without any of those films having won the Oscar for Best Picture. His two wins are for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018). The other three individuals are Frank Borzage for directing 7th Heaven (1927) and Bad Girl (1931), George Stevens for directing A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956), and Ang Lee for directing Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012).He is friends with singer Ian Brown and offered to direct one of his future videos.Directed 3 actresses to Oscar nominations: Sandra Bullock, Yalitza Aparicio, and Marina de Tavira.He was the mentor of actor/director Dean Paraskevopoulos.Won the 2019 Academy Award in the Best Director category for his work on Roma (2018).Brother of Carlos Cuar��n.He was the original director of the film The Perez Family (1995), but pulled out before production started.Has been nominated in six different categories at the Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, winning Oscars in the first three categories.Alfonso Cuar��n won the 2019 Academy Award in the Best Cinematography category for his work on Roma (2018). |
| Trademarks: |
Frequently works with Emmanuel Lubezki as his director of photography
Often uses restlessly moving camera work
Use of long continuous and digitally blended shots
Often uses wide camera angles
When directing, he flashes the title of the movie both at the beginning and at the end of all of his films. |
| Quotes: |
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
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The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
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Most of cinema nowadays is about shooting a lot and then figuring it out in the cutting room, rather than seeing your film it the head and see what's in your head and not shoot what you have already envisioned in your head.
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When people see some depth you never intended that's really cool, you just put on a face and say "Oh, yeah, that was deep". What are you going to say? I'm just a moron with luck? |
| Job title: |
Producer,Writer,Director |
| Others works: |
Directed two commercials for PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), "Fish" and "Naked", for the series "Be More". |
| Spouse: |
Annalisa Bugliani (2001 - 2008) (divorced, 2 children)Mariana Elizondo (1980 - 1993) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Tess Bu Cuar��nJon��s Cuar��nOlmo Teodoro Cuar��n |
| Parents: |
Alfredo Cuaron |
| Relatives: |
Carlos Cuar��n (Sibling) |
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