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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

Harry and fan
Jason's character, Harry, is revealed to be a Charlton Athletic fan.
McDaniels — who had become a fan of thoughtful singer-songwriters like John Lennon, Harry Chapin, and Sarah McLachlan — wanted to go in a more introspective direction.
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work.
The list is stolen by an obsessed fan who, in mimicking his favorite director, makes his way through the list killing off celebrities, of which Dirty Harry is also included.
J. K. Rowling / Warner Brothers has sent cease-and-desist letters referencing " sexually explicit " writings on the web, ( Example cease and desist letters at Chilling Effects ), though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry / Draco and Harry / Snape are non-canonical.
South cloisters with fan vault ed roof was used extensively in the Harry Potter film series
Dwight Eisenhower lined up with his parents at the 1904 Kansas State Fair to see him, and Harry Truman recalled that as a boy he had written a fan letter to the horse.
The impatience of the international Harry Potter fan community for translations of the books has led to the proliferation of unauthorised or pirate translations that are often hastily translated and posted on the internet chapter-by-chapter, or printed by small presses and sold illegally.
Another case involved the internet fan translation community, Harry auf Deutsch, formed to translate the Harry Potter books into German more rapidly.
The goal of Dumbledore's Army inspired actor / comedian Andrew Slack, a Harry Potter fan, to create a group called Harry Potter Alliance to highlight the crisis in Sudan and social inequalities.
Much erotic fanfic is based on science fiction, fantasy, or mainstream television series ( e. g. Star Trek, Beauty and the Beast, Highlander, Criminal Minds ) and movies ( e. g. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings ), using existing characters in relationships either hinted at or wholly undreamed of by their creators, in genres like slash ( homoerotic fan fiction ), elf porn, etc.
* Harry Warner, Jr. ( 1922 – 2003 ), science fiction fan and historian
Enter Harry Moon ( Derek Thompson ), a fan and songwriter who becomes the band's new musical driving force, although now the girls are writing many of their own songs too.
As evidence of the original modified production car concept, a fan favorite in the 1971 Trans Am series was the " Grey Ghost ", a ' 64 Pontiac Tempest, prepared by Pontiac Special Projects Engineering Manager Herb Adams and a group of his young proteges ( Tom Nell / Jeff Young-Engines, Joe Brady / Harry Quackenboss-Chassis, Ted Lambaris-Body, Tom Goad-Logistics ).
" UGO Networks listed Harry as one of their best heroes of all time, who said that " Harry is a hero to the often oppressed and downtrodden young fan boys and girls out there, who finally have an icon that is respected and revered by those who might otherwise look down on robe-wearing and wand waving as dork fodder ".
Cuoco has said that she is a big fan of both Game of Thrones and Harry Potter.

Harry and fiction
* 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.
One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.
In The Third Man ( 1949 ), Cotten portrays a writer of pulp fiction who travels to post-war Vienna to meet his friend Harry Lime ( Welles ).
The next book to carry Charteris ’ s name, 1964's Vendetta for the Saint, was written by science fiction author Harry Harrison, who had worked on the Saint comic strip, after which Charteris edited and revised the manuscript.
Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.
By the 1980s there appeared fiction written by Southern authors who themselves claimed a redneck or white trash origins, such as Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, and Tim McLaurin .. Autobiographies sometimes mention white trash origins.
* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.
* Harry Turtledove: Alternate history fiction
Science fiction author Harry Turtledove has used the name H. N.
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.
Publishers Weeklys report in December 2001 on cumulative sales of children's fiction placed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 19th among hardbacks ( over 5 million copies ) and 7th among paperbacks ( over 6. 6 million copies ).
Aniara ( full original title: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum ) is a poem of science fiction written by the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956.
George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman ( 1969 ) combine the picaresque with historical fiction.
Some science fiction and fantasy books also show a clear picaresque influence, transported to a variety of invented worlds — for example, The Dying Earth series of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series, James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres and L. Sprague de Camp's Novarian series.
Justinian, a 1998 novel by science fiction author, and Byzantine scholar, Harry Turtledove, writing under the name HN Turtletaub, gives a fictionalized version of Justinian's life as retold by a fictional lifelong companion the soldier Myakes.
* The Technicolor Time Machine, a 1967 science fiction satire by Harry Harrison
Gods named Liber and Libera play a major role in the science fiction / time-travel novel Household Gods by Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr.
In July 2000, the " Children's Best Sellers " was created after the Harry Potter series had stayed in the top spots on the fiction list for an extended period of time.

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