Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

In 2003, Cuarón directed the third film in the successful Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

He is joined by producer David Heyman, who Cuarón worked with on Harry Potter.

* 2004: BAFTA Children's Award-Best Feature Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won )

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 2011: BAFTA Children's Award-First Light Awards-Kids ' Vote for Film of the Decade ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won )

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

* 2005: Best Director ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Abergavenny is mentioned by Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the Knight Bus when the bus takes a detour there to drop off a passenger.

* Le Guin's comments regarding the similarities to Harry Potter

The incantation " Avada Kedavra " is known as the Killing Curse in the " Harry Potter " novel series.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

If one has to name a famous wizard, the names would typically be Merlin, Gandalf or Harry Potter.

* In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, some of the students used some Capoeira skills.

* Cassiopeia Black, a pure-blood witch from Harry Potter novels

* Harry Potter Lexicon article on centaurs in the Harry Potter universe

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

* Both the books Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which were written by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling as a way to raise funds for Comic Relief, are written as reference books for the wizarding world.

The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.

The viaduct has become known to millions in recent years as the " Harry Potter Bridge " after it featured in the films of the books by J. K. Rowling.

" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.

Gromit graduated from " Dogwarts University " (' Dogwarts ' being a pun on ' Hogwarts ', the wizard school from the Harry Potter books ) with a double first in Engineering for Dogs.

* The Wizengamot, a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling, derives its name from the Witenagemot.

In the Harry Potter books, the Leaky Cauldron pub is located on Charing Cross Road.

In the Harry Potter books, non-magical people are often portrayed as foolish, sometimes befuddled characters who are completely ignorant of the Wizarding world that exists in their midst.

Rowling herself was sued for using the word " muggle " in the Harry Potter books.

The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read again, were The Life of Hannibal and The History of Sir William Wallace modernised version of Blind Harry by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield.

** Some books, films, video games, and TV shows have one or more eponymous principal characters: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Emma, the Harry Potter series, The Legend of Zelda series, I Love Lucy, for example.

Educators regard Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and its sequels as an important aid in improving literacy because of the books ' popularity.

In August 1999 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone topped the New York Times list of best-selling fiction, and stayed near the top of the list for much of 1999 and 2000, until the New York Times split its list into children's and adult sections under pressure from other publishers who were eager to see their books given higher placings.

Both novelists encourage re-reading, because details that look insignificant foreshadow important events or characters much later in the story-line – for example Sirius Black is briefly mentioned near the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and then becomes a major character in the third to fifth books.

Like Austen's heroines, Harry often has to re-examine his ideas near the ends of books.

Some social behaviour in the Harry Potter books is remininiscent of Austen, for example the excited communal reading of letters.

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson was compelled to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics # 1.

* The Cinema of George Lucas ( Hardcover ) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ( March 1, 2005 )

To aid Sentebale, as well as the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Centrepoint, Harry and his brother organised the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium, on 1 July 2007.

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

Following the constitution, another presidential election was held, in which two brothers, Anote and Harry Tong, were the two main candidates ( the third one, Banuera Berina won just 9, 1 %).

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

* The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds over 1, 500 items related to the Rubaiyat, including two copies of the first edition, hundreds of editions, translations, and parodies, several Persian manuscripts containing rubaiyat, and ephemera, manuscripts and correspondence documenting the phenomenon of " Omariana "

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, director David Yates paid homage to Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil.

The exhaust is, however, relatively low in NOx emissions, as combustion temperatures are lower than in other engines, and also because of some inherent Exhaust Gas Recirculation-EGR-in early engines ; the higher the combustion temperature is, the higher the NOx emissions are ( sir Harry Ricardo proved in the 20's that for every 1 % increase of the proportion of exhaust gas in the admission mix, there's a 45º F reduction in flame temperature ); this allowed Mazda to meet the United States Clean Air Act of 1970 in 1973 with a simple and inexpensive ' thermal reactor ' ( an enlarged open chamber in the exhaust manifold ) by paradoxically enriching the air-fuel ratio to the point where the unburned hydrocarbons ( HC ) in the exhaust would support complete combustion in the thermal reactor ; while piston-engine cars required expensive catalytic converters to deal with both unburned hydrocarbons and NOx emissions.

As a result, Harry Warner – while speaking at a convention of 1, 500 independent exhibitors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – was able to convince the filmmakers to spend $ 500, 000 in newspaper advertising, and Harry saw this as an opportunity to finally be able to establish theaters in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.

His aggregate for the season was 2, 739 and this was the first time that anyone had scored 2, 000 first-class runs in a season ; Harry Jupp was next best with 1, 068.

* October 1 – Harry Hill, English comedian, writer and actor

* On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists staged an attempted assassination on U. S. President Harry S. Truman.

* February 1, Harry Styles singer of band One Direction

* July 1 – Debbie Harry, American rock singer ( Blondie )

* January 1 – Harry B. Smith, American composer ( b. 1860 )

* June 1 – Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London ; he tries to use a Pathé film to demonstrate that his death ray works.

* February 1 – Harry Roy, British bandleader ( b. 1900 )

From February 1 to July 21, 2011, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the home of Williams ' archive, exhibited 250 of his personal items.

Framestore was also nominated for Oscars in 2007 ( Superman Returns ), in 2009 ( The Dark Knight ) and again in 2010 ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 ).

* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2