Alfonso Cuarón is a
Mexican film
director. After directing
A Little Princess and
Great Expectations (starring
Robert de Niro,
Gwyneth Paltrow, and
Ethan Hawke), Cuarón's biggest success was a foreign film,
2001's
Y Tu Mama Tambien, which earned him an
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. This led to more big screen success with films in English, including directing
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the third movie of the smash hit
franchise) and the
2006 drama
Children of Men, a story set in the year
2027 when the world has descended into near-anarchy after an
infertility pandemic has ceased human procreation.
Children of Men, starring
Clive Owen and based on the book of the same name, secured two more Oscar nominations for Cuarón, including Best Adapted Screenplay.