idade do México (México), 1961

By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti

His first work was the short film Vengeance is Mine (1983), in partnership with Carlos Marcovich. The following year, he was assistant director on Nocaut, the first feature film by director José Luis García Agraz. The film received several awards and was presented at festivals in Europe and the United States. After directing Sólo con tu pareja (1991), Cuarón was invited by Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood (USA) to direct the children’s film A Little Princess (1995), nominated for Oscars in Best Cinematography and Art Direction. In 2001, he shared with his brother, also filmmaker Carlos Cuarón, the production, direction, and screenplay of the film Y Tu Mamá También, a major box office success that became a landmark in Mexican cinema.

Warner Brothers called him again to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), the third film in the series. The following year, he directed Paris, je t’aime and in 2006 Children of Men, which received three Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and Editing. In 2007, he co-produced the award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro. In 2014, with Gravity, he won three Best Director awards: the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA.

Screenwriter, director, and film producer.

Cuarón has three children: Jonás, from his first marriage to Mariana Elizondo, Tess Bu, and Olmo Teodoro, from his second marriage to Annalisa Bugliani. His partner since 2014 is the English writer and environmentalist Sheherazade Goldsmith.