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, books 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

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

Four of the top seven highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

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

It is also responsible for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 as Warner Bros .' highest grossing movie ever ( the former was The Dark Knight ).

In 2011, Rickman again appeared as Severus Snape in the final instalment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

Rowling does not fully reveal the details of his true loyalties until the end of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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

" Andrew Slack and the Harry Potter Alliance compare media consolidation in the U. S. to Voldemort's regime in Deathly Hallows and its control over the Daily Prophet and other media saying that " Once Voldemort took over every form of media in the wizarding world, Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix formed an independent media movement called ' Potterwatch '.

The seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published 21 July 2007.

* The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( 2007 ) takes place in this year.

In addition, Harry uses his Quidditch skills to capture a golden egg from a dragon called the Hungarian Horntail ( in the first task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament ), to capture a flying key in Philosopher's Stone, and on two key occasions in Deathly Hallows — getting hold of Ravenclaw's Diadem, and during the final fight with Voldemort — the " unerring skill of the Seeker " is vitally useful to him in snatching the Elder Wand out of the air.

It is also explained in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that the Snitch has a " flesh memory ", able to recall the first person who has touched it, and will respond only to the first person who caught it.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore leaves to Harry in his will the first Snitch Harry had caught, inside of which he had hidden the Resurrection Stone.

* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 ( 2010 )

* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ( 2011 )

The story " The Three Brothers " was in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and its film adaptation.

Phillips also provided the voice for the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films appearing in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( 2001 ) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ) as well as reprising his role in the final movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ( 2011 ).

And those still with us, Herbert C. Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

Harry Hawk still had his arm raised towards the wings.

Reynolds went on to arguably even greater achievements as a coach, a position to which he was first appointed, jointly with Harry Hunter, in 1939 ( this was while Reynolds was still a player ).

Katz's Deli still hangs a sign above the table that says, " Where Harry met Sally ... hope you have what she had!

Over the years, When Harry Met Sally ... has become " the quintessential contemporary feel-good relationship movie that somehow still rings true ".

In 1948, Bette Davis, still the studio's top actress and now fed up with Jack Warner, was a big problem for Harry after she and a number of her colleagues left the studio after completing the film Beyond the Forest.

He still performed major extended compositions such as Harlem ( 1950 ), whose score he presented to music-loving President Harry Truman.

Early in 1952, while Stevenson was still governor of Illinois, President Harry S. Truman decided that he would not seek another term as president.

The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.

In 1995, Williams president Harry C. Payne declared the story false, but many still nurture the legend.

In 1989 Harry Falk noted that, in the texts, both haoma and soma were said to enhance alertness and awareness, did not coincide with the consciousness altering effects of an entheogen, and that " there is nothing shamanistic or visionary either in early Vedic or in Old Iranian texts ", ( Falk, 1989 ) At the conclusion of the 1999 Haoma-Soma workshop in Leiden, Jan E. M. Houben writes: " despite strong attempts to do away with ephedra by those who are eager to see * sauma as a hallucinogen, its status as a serious candidate for the Rigvedic Soma and Avestan Haoma still stands " ( Houben, 2003 ).

Frank Ives was a judge in Crookston, MN, which was the county seat of Polk County ( of which Pennington was then a part ) and his son, Harry Ives, was the postmaster when the St. Hilaire post office began in 1882 while still part of Polk County.

The islands are the location of some of Quebec's oldest English-speaking settlements, and although the majority of anglophones have since been assimilated with the francophone population or migrated elsewhere, there are still English-speaking settlements at Old Harry, Grosse-Ile, and Entry Island.

Agreeing to the terms, Mary Jane and Peter had reality altered so that May lived, Spider-Man's identity was once again a secret, and Harry Osborn was still alive.

Though Harry does not believe the stories, he still thinks it would be best if Belvedere found other employment, but is persuaded by his wife and children to change his mind.

Harry was still in diapers ( nappies ) and his brother Owen was nearly four when their grandmother met them.

As long as he still calls Little Whinging home, Harry is safe.

The latter production, which ran in New York until February 2009, required the stableboy to appear naked ; its star, Daniel Radcliffe, was still associated with the Harry Potter films intended for general audiences, and this led to mild controversy.

* Harry Ricardo founded Ricardo Consulting Engineers in Shoreham-by-Sea, where it still has its main offices.

Harry was still clutching the Belgian automatic pistol in one hand, Josephine in the other.

For example the wife of Harry Kuhlmann from San Jose, California, ( 22nd Aero Squadron 1917-9 ) died in 1974, still holding Camp Taliaferro Post Exchange Tickets.

After the holidays, Harry begins working with Professor Lupin to fight Dementors with the Patronus Charm ; he is moderately successful, but still not entirely confident in his ability to ward them off.

Harry and Hermione and Crookshanks dash down after them ; oddly, Crookshanks knows the secret knob to press to still the flailing tree.