Carlos Cuarón

Carlos José Cuarón Orozco ( born October 2, 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.

Life

Cuarón is the brother of Alfonso Cuarón and uncle of his children Jonás Cuarón, Tess Bu Cuarón and Olmo Teodoro Cuarón, who have taken already in the film business away.

Cuarón studied English man of letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM). Then he started on some short films, such as, for example, to work Sólo con tu pareja 1991, the staged his brother as a screenwriter and won it in the same year an Ariel Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Together with his brother he wrote the screenplay for Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life (2001), in which, among other things, the actor Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel Verdú participated. The first two played in other films of the two brothers, including the directorial debut of Carlos, with. For Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life was both for numerous film awards, and other things for the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award nominated.

Filmography (selection)

As a director:

As a screenwriter:

As a producer:

  • 2002: Me la debes (Short Film )
  • 2004: The Assassination of Richard Nixon ( documentation)
  • 2006: Poncho Balón ( TV series)

Awards

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