25 Best Directors In The World Right Now

By Sam Hill /

7. Alfonso Cuaron

Most Recent Film: Gravity (2013) Next Film: A Boy And His Shoe (TBA) Best Film: Children Of Men (2006) Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron has been making great film after great film for a long time - it's just that nobody bothered to connect the man's name to his output. When you realise that Cuaron was not only responsible for the best of all the Harry Potter films - The Prisoner of Azkaban - but Children Of Men (arguably the best film of the Noughties) and the recent SFX masterpiece that was Gravity, you begin to get a sense of his diverse talents. Cuaron's first masterpiece came as early as 2001, though, when the filmmaker released the Spanish-language film Y Tu Mamá También (translation: And Your Mother Too) - one which showcased his preference for realistic long takes and a certain freewheeling camera style that was later honed to such masterful degrees in both Children Of Men and Gravity. Cuaron is the kind of versatile filmmaker - one with his eye firmly fixed on the future of his medium and its associated technologies - who could go anywhere and do anything (forget the limitations). His next film, the curiously titled A Boy And His Shoe, sounds risky, but Cuaron has earned the right to our trust. Expect it to be another masterpiece, then.