Alfonso Cuaron has entered the fashion world.
The Academy Award-winning directed recently made a 90-second fashion film for a boutique fine jewelry brand.
The Oscars take place on February 22nd and there are a number of Mexicans in contention for major awards. Among them are director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. A win for either would continue Mexico's well-documented history at the big event. But how have Mexicans fared in the 87-year history of the Academy Awards?
Gravity was quite the force at Sunday's 86th Annual Academy Awards. Director Alfonso Cuarón took home two himself, one for Directing and one for Film Editing. The Mexican director, however, is trying to leave the Oscars behind, both literally and figuratively.
The 86th Annual Academy Awards will go down as a treasured moment in Latino history in Arts & Entertainment.
Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón became the first Latino to win an Oscar for Best Director, fellow Gravity collaborator and Mexican filmmaker Emmanuel Lubeski won for cinematography, and multi-faceted Filipino-American Robert Lopez became a member of the prestigious 'EGOT' (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards) club, joining in the ranks of legendary talent, such as the beloved Rita Moreno.
In total, Gravity tied for the most nominations with David O Russell's American Hustle, both arriving at the Oscars with 10 nominations each. Only Gravity would end up with the largest count of Oscar wins, though.
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is a visual masterpiece to the human eye and its dynamic effects continue to wow as it was the top winner at Wednesday night's 12th Visual Effects Society Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is representing Latinos in film worldwide by leading the pack for this year's Oscars nods -- with 10 Oscar nominations. But fellow Latino, Guatemala-born actor Oscar Isaac who stars in Inside Llewyn Davis isn't quite feeling the Oscar love that he and the Coen brothers deserve, according to many fans of the film.
Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón will fondly remember the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards because it marks his first Golden Globe award for Best Director - Motion Picture. He beat out contenders Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), Alexander Payne (Nebraska) and David O. Russell (American Hustle).
This morning, the highly anticipated Golden Globe Award nominations were announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The list revealed that American film aficionados either want to be 'hustled' or get a grim yet truthful lesson in American history - and they also want to take an innovative 3-D journey and get caught between Earth and the void of the universe.
Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, who stars in the renown Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity," is anything but stranded in space -- you could say that her career is on top of the world.
