Sydney Pollack

Alfonso Cuarón, a film director, screenwriter, producer and editor, is famously known to be the first Mexican director to win an Academy Award for Best Directing. Born on November 28th, 1961, his passion for the industry had been integrated from a very young age. Growing up in Mexico City, Cuarón was exposed to numerous mediums of film wether it was watching movies, television or going to cinema theatres. Like many children growing up in the 1960s, directors such as Vittorio De Sica, John Ford…