page_title: Alfonso Cuarón
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Alfonso Cuarón / Career / Early career
caption_attribution_description: 98 03 06 arte y gente cine pedro armendariz a la izquierda y a la derecha alfonso cuaron director de cine en la inauguracion de la xiii muestra de cine mexicano llegando al teatro degollado foto de angelica jurado
context_page_description: Alfonso Cuarón is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor. Several of his films have received critical acclaim and accolades. He has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards winning five of them, including two Best Director awards for Gravity and Roma. He is the first Latin American director to receive the award for Best Director. He has also received Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for Gravity and Best Cinematography for Roma. Cuarón has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories, a record he shares with Walt Disney and George Clooney. His other notable films include the family drama A Little Princess, the road comedy Y tu mamá también, the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the science fiction thriller Children of Men.
context_section_description: Cuarón began working on television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director. His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several film productions including La Gran Fiesta, Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.
caption: Cuarón at the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara in 1998.
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