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.

Cuarón, however, was more interested in filming Y tu mamá también, and gave Vergara the screenplay.

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.

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

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.

Cuarón will start directing " Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban " next year.

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.

In February 2011, Newell attended the British Academy Film Awards along with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates, Alfonso Cuarón, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson to collect the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema on behalf of the Harry Potter film series.

He is also developing projects with Potter directors Alfonso Cuarón and David Yates.

Alfonso Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

Cuarón himself received two nominations for his work on the film in both Editing ( with Alex Rodríguez ) and Adapted Screenplay ( with several collaborators ).

Cuarón also directed the controversial public service announcement " I Am Autism " for Autism Speaks that was sharply criticized by disability rights groups for its negative portrayal of autism.

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

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

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

He has continued to work with Cuarón in Y tu mamá también and, most recently, Children of men, for which he has received critical praise and various awards, including the 63rd Venice International Film Festival for Best Technical Contribution.

García Bernal has worked for acclaimed directors including Pedro Almodóvar, Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Michel Gondry, among others.

In 1999 Vergara met film director Alfonso Cuarón while seeking out filmmakers for his corporate movies.

In addition to writing, producing, and directing, Cuarón co-edited the film with Luis Patlán.

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

In 2010, Cuarón began to develop a science fiction film named Gravity, which he is set to direct.

* 1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director

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

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

* The DVD includes the short film Me La Debes by Carlos Cuarón.

Cuarón was one of the producers of Pan's Labyrinth, while Iñárritu assisted in editing the film.

Cuarón studied Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) and filmmaking at CUEC ( Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos ), a faculty of the same University.

Cuarón began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director.

Cuarón continued this close involvement in editing on several of his later films.

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