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.

* 1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director

Lord Voldemort () Alfonso Cuarón, director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban compared Voldemort with George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, as the two of them "... have selfish interests and are very much in love with power.

The director for the third Harry Potter film has been announced as Mexican-born Alfonso Cuarón.

A loose film adaptation, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen, was released in 2006.

Some of the present-day film makers include, Alejandro González Iñárritu ( Amores perros, Babel ), Alfonso Cuarón ( Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ), Guillermo del Toro ( Pan's Labyrinth ), Carlos Reygadas ( Stellet Licht ), screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and owners Guillermo Navarro and Emmanuel Lubezki.

Y Tu Mamá También () is a 2001 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos.

* Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay-Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

* BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay-Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

Category: Films directed by Alfonso Cuarón

The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 2004 and was directed by Alfonso Cuarón from a screenplay by Steve Kloves.

After the first few years in prison, Mercader requested to be released on parole, but the request was denied by Dr. Jesús Siordia and the criminologist Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón.

* Y tu mamá también ( Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón, 2001 ): a Mexican coming-of-age movie focusing on the sexual lives of the three main characters.

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It first took place with high quality films by Arturo Ripstein, Alfonso Arau, Alfonso Cuarón and María Novaro.

The latest are Amores perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu, ( with a notable international success ), Y tu mamá también by Alfonso Cuarón, El crimen del Padre Amaro by Carlos Carrera, Arráncame la vida by Roberto Sneider and Biutiful ( 2010 ), also directed by Iñarritu and Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada ( 2010 ).

Film director Alfonso Cuarón has been noted for both his Mexican and American films.

Five-times Academy Award nominated cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki " El Chivo " started his career along Alfonso Cuarón with Sólo con tu pareja, A little princess and Great expectations.

* Alfonso Cuarón

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy and Theresa of León, the natural daughter of King Alfonso VI of León.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

Independence from Alfonso VII of León's suzerainty, however, was not a thing he just could achieve militarily.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

The first-born of this union, Infanta Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian infanta, Constance of Peñafiel.

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.

Alfonso II ( 759 – 842 ), called the Chaste, was the king of Asturias from 791 to his death, the son of Fruela I and the Basque Munia.

Alfonso was subsequently elected king on 14 September 791.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

So, he sent Alfonso to the Sandhurst Military Academy in England, where the training Alfonso received was severe but more cosmopolitan than Spain, given the current athmosphere

Alfonso Arau ( born January 11, 1932 ) is a Mexican actor and director.

Alfonso was born in Madrid, posthumously born son of Alfonso XII of Spain, and became King of Spain upon his birth.

* Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruíz y Moragas ( born 26 April 1929 ), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruíz Moragas

Alfonso XIII was born after his father's death and was proclaimed king upon his birth.

One year later on 29 June 1475 her sister Beatrice d ' Este was born, and in 1476 and 1477 two brothers, Alfonso and Ippolito arrived.

Although this was denied, a child was born in that year before Lucrezia's marriage to Alfonso of Aragon.

Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.

Alfonso XIII was born on 17 May 1886 after the death of his father.

Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D ' Antonguolla in Castellaneta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy.

* Juana Alfonso, 1st Lady of Trastámara ( born 1330 )

* Fadrique Alfonso, Master of the Order of Santiago and 1st Lord of Haro ; ( born 1335 )

Alfonso VII ( 1 March 1105 – 21 August 1157 ), born Alfonso Raimúndez, called the Emperor ( el Emperador ), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126.

* Alfonso Mora ( born 1964 ), Venezuelan former tennis player

Alfonso was born in Zamora.

Alfonso also fathered many illegitimate children, some fifteen further children born out of wedlock are documented.