Alfonso Cuaron Net Worth

The work of this person usually is unnoticed. Only true cinema lovers really appreciate directors and their input into making a full motion picture. Alfonso Cuarón is definitely a powerhouse in the movie industry. A Film director legend, this unknown bred Mexican has had tons of successes behind the scenes of large budget blockbusters and smaller movies. Born on unknown, Alfonso Cuarón was raised in a home with Alfredo Cuarón, Cristina Orozco Carlos Cuarón, Alfredo Cuarón. Later on, this director went to and graduated Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, National Autonomous University of Mexico which allowed a talent like this to grow and develop. A 1.82 m tall director had and has a family of Annalisa Bugliani (m. 2001–2008), Mariana Elizondo (m. 1980–1993) unknown. Many successful projects have been realised under the supervision of Alfonso Cuarón. Such success has amassed a fortune of $40 Million for Alfonso Cuarón.

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Structural info

• Full Name: Alfonso Cuarón
• Net Worth: $40 Million
• Date Of Birth: November 28, 1961
• Place Of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
• Height: 1.82 m
• Profession: Film director
• Education: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Nationality: Mexican
• Spouse: Annalisa Bugliani (m. 2001–2008), Mariana Elizondo (m. 1980–1993)
• Parents: Alfredo Cuarón, Cristina Orozco
• Siblings: Carlos Cuarón, Alfredo Cuarón
• Partner: Sheherazade Goldsmith
• IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/
• Awards: Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best British Film, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Editing, BAF…
• Nominations: Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Lion, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Grand Jury Prize, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, César Award for Be…
• Movies: Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, A Little Princess, Great Expectations, Love in the Time of Hysteria, Desierto, Pan’s Labyrinth, Paris, I Love You, Rudo y Cursi, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Crónicas, Sístole Diástole, You Owe Me One,…
• TV Shows: Believe

Quotes

• Tim [Webber] came to me with the idea ‘let’s do it mainly CG’, and I went ‘no way..that’s going to suck. We’re going to do it as much practical as we can’. So we tried the conventional rigs and stuff. We tried cables and twisted arms and stuff, and I think it was three hours into the first day that it was so obvious that it wouldn’t work.. And there’s another thing. Wires give you this axis when you’re rolling, and we needed several axises, so the wires weren’t going to do it.. We wanted to give it a photo-real look from the first minute. I remember saying that when we finished the film I wanted NASA to call us and say they were suing us for putting cameras in their ships.
• [on the physicality of Sandra Bullock’s performance] It was more like a dancer really with choreography, because it just wasn’t marks, it was about timing. So it was very complex and I’m amazed at what she did.
• The most important thing for us is that all of this stuff, and all of this technology, are only tools to achieve the cinematic experience and cinematic moment. For us, the conceptual aspect behind it and the theoretical aspect of what we were trying to convey was more important. All of the technology was in service of that.
• They ask if I’m happy and elated by ‘Gravity’s success. For me, it’s like the fox who has been chased by hounds for four and a half years, and then the fox gets away. Is the fox happy? The fox is happy when he’s frolicking with another fox, playing with the cubs in the meadow, mating, but when he escapes it’s just relief. That’s not happiness.
• [on directing ‘Gravity’] There were times when it felt as though everything and everyone was conspiring against the process. But the thing about adversities is that they force you out of your comfort zone. The bad outcome is that you might drift into the void, but the other outcome is that you might gain amazing tools for growth and knowledge.
• [on ‘Gravity’] The camera is a third astronaut, and that astronaut is the audience. The audience is floating in space, following these characters who are bonded by the loss of physics in zero gravity, floating and rolling and spinning. The idea is to immerse the audience so that your emotional experience is projected onto the screen in a primal way.
• If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be A Little Princess.
• There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features,it’s a great little short story you get to play with.
• (Thoughts on the one film (or films) that made him want to become a filmmaker and why): There was no epiphany from one film. There were a few that stood out over the years. I was 8 when I saw Bicycle Thieves (1948), and it was the first black-and-white film I had ever seen. It triggered my curiosity to start seeing European cinema. When I was 7, I saw The Making of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1970). Hearing George Roy Hill talk about all the choices he made, I knew that directing movies was what I wanted to do. I remember seeing Death and Venice 40 times one year, and then switching my allegiance to Godard after seeing Masculine/Feminine! I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you’re alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable. Whether it was Steve McQueen, the coolest guy in cinema, to Robert Altman’s strange and wonderful 3 Women (1977), I saw hundreds of films before I ever picked up a camera. I believe I took something away from each one.
• When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that’s the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you’re like that. They just want you to be normal.
• When people see some depth you never intended that’s really cool, you just put on a face and say “Oh, yeah, that was deep”. What are you going to say? I’m just a moron with luck?
• Most of cinema nowadays is about shooting a lot and then figuring it out in the cutting room, rather than seeing your film it the head and see what’s in your head and not shoot what you have already envisioned in your head.
• The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it’s just to see what you learn for the next one.
• I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I’m really thankful for my journey. And it’s a journey I didn’t design.
• What’s the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

Facts

• He is one of 9 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director’s Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same film, achieving this feat for Gravity (2013). The others to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List (1993), Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant (2015).
• Was considered to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
• Was considered to direct The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).
• One of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
• He is the first Mexican-born director to win the Oscar for Best Director, achieving the feat for Gravity (2013).
• Directed Sandra Bullock to an Oscar nomination for Gravity (2013).
• When he accepted the Golden Globe award for Best Director in 2014 for Gravity (2013), Cuaron apologized for his poor English, especially to his star Sandra Bullock, for scaring her on location during production when he said what sounded like, ” I’m going to give you herpes” when he actually had said, in his thick Spanish accent, “I’m going to give you [an] ear piece.”.
• Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
• Was attached to direct Speed Racer (2008) with Johnny Depp in lead, but the job went to Wachowski brothers.
• In 2007, he was one of 10 Mexican Oscar-nominees. The others were Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Guillermo del Toro, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Navarro, Emmanuel Lubezki, Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta and Fernando Cámara.
• He’s a fan of Tim Burton.
• He became attached to direct the film Runaway Jury (2003) but after a few months he left the project.
• He has never read the novel ‘The Children of Men’ by P.D. James in which is film Children of Men (2006) is based on.
• He was attached to direct Life of Pi (2012), but due to the production of Children of Men (2006), he had to step aside the director’s chair. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and then finally Ang Lee replaced him.
• He was the original director of the film The Perez Family (1995), but pulled out before production started.
• After divorcing from his ex-wife, Annalisa Bugliani, he moved from New York where they lived with their children, and now lives in London.
• He is friends with singer Ian Brown and offered to direct one of his future videos.
• He was set to write/direct the film Hart’s War (2002) but when production was about to begin he decided to do Y Tu Mamá También (2001) instead.
• He was the mentor of actor/director Dean Paraskevopoulos.
• He turned down the chance to direct Addicted to Love (1997) to work instead on A Little Princess (1995).
• He is friends with directors Guillermo del Toro, Mira Nair, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Terry George and Terry Gilliam.
• Father of Tess Bu Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón and Olmo Teodoro Cuarón.
• He had never read any of the Harry Potter books when he was offered to direct the third film.
• Brother of Carlos Cuarón.

Trademarks

• Often uses hand-held cameras
• When directing, he flashes the title of the movie both at the beginning and at the end of all of his films.
• Often uses wide camera angles
• Use of long continuous and digitally blended shots
• Often uses restlessly moving camera work
• Frequently works with Emmanuel Lubezki as his director of photography

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