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

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.

* Garza Cuarón, Beatriz, Historia de la literatura mexicana: desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, vol.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.

In 1965, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he studied under Gilbert Ryle and was a member of Hertford College.

He studied and later lectured at Heythrop College and, seeing the poor standard of philosophical teaching in seminaries, wrote an influential nine-volume History of Philosophy ( 1946 – 75 ), which is highly respected.

The most important magician of the Renaissance was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ( 1486 – 1535 ), who widely studied various occult topics and earlier grimoires, and eventually published his own, the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, in 1533.

Gödel then studied number theory, but when he took part in a seminar run by Moritz Schlick which studied Bertrand Russell's book Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, he became interested in mathematical logic.

He has been dubbed the ' Father of Modern Philosophy ', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day.

Khomeini studied Greek Philosophy and was influenced by both the philosophy of Aristotle, whom he regarded as the founder of logic, and Plato, whose views " in the field of divinity " he regarded as " grave and solid ".

He emigrated to Canada with his wife in 1975, settling in Toronto where he studied at the University of Toronto and received a BA in English and Philosophy.

In 1882 he entered Munich University, where he studied Philosophy and Art History, but not music.

Graduated in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, he studied political economy at the Sorbonne, in Paris.

Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1904 earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on " The Philosophy of Hippolyte Taine ".

Benn went to Westminster School and studied at New College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1947.

His work on the liar paradox has been most recently studied by Paul Spade and Stephen Read ( for which see Spade's entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which offers a brief exposition ).

He later studied at St Antony's College, Oxford, taking the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1975.

From 1979 to 1983 Ahmeti studied Philosophy at the University of Pristina in Kosovo, Serbia, graduating in 1983.

After graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics she was a Fulbright Scholar and studied at Columbia University in New York City.

In 1974 he became director of English language publications at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran under Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu, Henry Corbin and others.

Sergeant graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Between 1973 and 1977 Bhutto studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, during which time she took additional courses in International Law and Diplomacy.

John Jr. studied first at Glasgow ( 1848 – 55 ) and then Balliol College, Oxford ( 1855 – 9 ) as a Snell Exhibitioner, graduating with a First-Class degree in Classics, Philosophy and Mathematics.

After graduating from Gymnasium Paulinum he first leaned towards the legal profession but then studied Philosophy, History, German and Political Science at Strasbourg, the London School of Economics and Bonn, where, in 1915, he received a doctorate for his thesis on the financial, economical and legal implications for nationalizing the British railway system.

His parents therefore decided to get him out of Pakistan, and sent him to England to study at Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Mondino studied at the University of Bologna in the College of Medicine and the College of Philosophy, graduated around 1290, and was employed as a public lecturer in practical medicine and surgery at the university from 1306 – 1324.