Alfonso Cuaron Orozco was born on 28 November 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico, and is a screenwriter, producer, editor and film director, best known for directing hit films including “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, “Children of Men”, and “Gravity”. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Alfonso Cuaron? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $40 million, mostly earned through success in the film industry; he is the first Latin American director to win an Oscar for Best Director. He’s received numerous awards over the course of his career, and as he continues, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.
Alfonso Cuaron Net Worth $40 million
Alfonso attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and studied philosophy there. He then attended Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos (CUEC) which is part of UNAM, to study filmmaking. There he met cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they would create his first short film entitled “Vengeance Is Mine”.
Cuaron started his career working as a technician for television in Mexico. He then transitioned to directing, and would become an assistant director for various Latin American film productions including “Romero”. In 1991, he got his first big-screen directorial work, Hishfirst full feature film entitled “Solo con tu pareja” about a womanizing businessman who believed he contracted AIDS after having sex with an attractive nurse, starring Astrid Hadad and model Claudia Ramirez. It was very successful, and led Cuaron to direct an episode of “Fallen Angels”. In 1995, he released his first feature film produced in the United States, called “A Little Princess” based on the novel of the same name. He then worked on a modernized version of “Great Expectations” starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, before returning to Mexico to film “Y Tu Mama Tambian’, which became an international hit and was critically acclaimed, drawing an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his work.
In 2004, Alfonso directed the third film of the “Harry Potter” series entitled “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. He received flak from some of the fans of the series but author J.K. Rowling loved his work. He then worked on another novel adaptation – “Children of Men” – which starred Clive Owen and Michael Caine, once again gaining critical acclaim, and three Academy Award nominations.
Alfonso then founded the production company “Esperanto Filmoj”, which would be responsible for creating his later films. In 2010, he developed the space drama “Gravity” which starred George Clooney and Sandra Bullock; the film would receive 10 Academy Award nominations, and he would win the Best Director award, becoming the first Latin American to ever do so.
Cuaron’s next project would be 2013’s “Believe”, a series that was part of NBC. Latterly it was reported that he is focused on directing a project about a Mexican family in the 1970s.
For his personal life, it is known that Alfonso married actress Annalisa Bugliani in 2001 and their marriage lasted until 2008. They have two children, and he also has a son prior to that marriage. He is known to now be in a relationship with writer Sheherazade Goldsmith.
