---
name: "Jonás Cuarón"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonas-cuaron"
fi1m_id: "jonas-cuaron"
imdb_id: "nm0190861"
tmdb_id: 1003190
wikidata_id: "Q15142000"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T09:10:31.752771+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jonás Cuarón

## Identity

Jonás Cuarón

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonas-cuaron
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonas-cuaron
- **IMDb ID:** nm0190861
- **TMDB ID:** 1003190
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15142000
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%C3%A1s_Cuar%C3%B3n, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15142000, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1003190

Writer. Born 1 January 1981 in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1981, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Active:** 1992–2013
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 writing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (1), 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%C3%A1s_Cuar%C3%B3n, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15142000, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1003190

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Gravity*](https://film.one/film/gravity.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jonás Cuarón is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He studied film at Vassar College and made his feature debut with *Year of the Nail* (*Año uña*, 2007), which he also wrote, produced and edited.

He co-wrote the screenplay for *Gravity* (2013) with his father, Alfonso Cuarón. Cuarón has since directed the features *Desierto* (2015) and *Chupa* (2023), as well as the short film *Aningaaq* (2013).

His other credits include the upcoming *Campeón Gabacho* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com, vassar.edu.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Sólo con tu pareja* (1992), Fi1m 72, as Kid at wedding 1 — [page](https://film.one/film/solo-con-tu-pareja.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Gravity* (2013), Fi1m 85, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Fi1m 87, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Campeón Gabacho* (2026), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Chupa* (2023), Director
- *The Substitute* (2022), Co-Producer
- *Pigs* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Desierto* (2015), Screenplay, Director, Editor, Producer
- *Aningaaq* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- *Gravity* (2013), Writer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)
- *Year of the Nail* (2007), Screenplay, Director, Editor, Still Photographer, Producer, Translator
- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)
- *Sólo con tu pareja* (1992), as Kid at wedding 1 — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/solo-con-tu-pareja.md)
- *Z*, Director, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Hugo Awards 2014: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (won), for *Gravity*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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