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.