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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
MEXICAN DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ________(BE) born November 28th, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico. He is a
Mexican director and screenwriter who ____ _____(earn) an international reputation for fluid
storytelling in a versatile range of genres.

Cuarón ________(study) film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (a school

within the National Autonomous University of Mexico) but he ___ ______ (BE) expelled for
having helped create, as part of a class project, a film that was controversially shot in English
instead of Spanish. Though Cuarón ____ ______(fear) he would never work in the cinematic arts,
he eventually ____ ______(find) work in Mexican television as a technician. That position led to
television directing, which in turn led to directing movies.

Cuarón’s first feature-length film ___ ____ (BE) Sólo con tu pareja (1991; Love in the Time of
Hysteria), for which he also ___ _____ (write) the screenplay. The film was very successful in
Mexico and brought Cuarón to the attention of the American director Sydney Pollack, who ___
______ (invite) him to direct an episode of his film-noir television series Fallen Angels (1993).
Cuarón then ____ _______ (direct) his first English-language theatrical release, the imaginative A
Little Princess (1995). This was followed by Great Expectations (1998), a loose adaptation of
the Charles Dickens novel with a Hollywood cast that ____ _____ (include) Gwyneth
Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, and Robert De Niro.

Cuarón’s breakout hit, however, ____ ________ (come) when he ___ _______ (return) to Spanish-
language filmmaking. Y tu mamá también (2001; “And Your Mother Too”), which he also wrote,
tracks the friendship between two teenage boys as they ______ ____(set) out on a road trip with an
attractive married woman and is simultaneously a vivid commentary on social class within Mexico.

Cuarón’s next film ___ ____ (BE) Roma in 2018 and he _____ _______ (win) the awards for best
direction and cinematography, while the movie won the Oscar for best foreign language film.

1. Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ___ ___(BE) born November 28th, 1961, in Mexico.
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When?

2. Cuarón ____ ____(study) film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (a

school within the National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Where?
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