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    Alfonso Cuarón could reunite with Iñárritu and Del Toro at Oscars with 'Le Pupille'

    LOS ANGELES — The Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón isn't exactly a stranger to the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Besides having won the Oscar twice as a director — the first for his work on "Gravity" (2013), the second for "Roma" five years later — he also has received the coveted award for his editing work on "Gravity" and for cinematography on "Roma," which also ...
    by Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times Jan 20, 2023 6 minutes
    Alfonso Cuarón attends the screening of the Disney+ Live Action Short, "Le Pupille", at The Four Seasons Hotel on Jan. 7, 2023, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — The Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón isn't exactly a stranger to the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

    Besides having won the Oscar twice as a director — the first for his work on "Gravity" (2013), the second for "Roma" five years later — he also has received the coveted award for his editing work on "Gravity" and for cinematography on "Roma," which also won the Oscar for international feature.

    But the film with which he has a serious chance of returning to the ceremony on March 12 lists him as a producer. "Le Pupille" (The Pupil), a 37-minute drama about Christmastime goings-on at a strict religious girls' boarding school in the 1940s, is on the short list for live-action short film. The finalists will be announced Jan. 24.

    "Le Pupille," which started streaming on Disney+ in December, was written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, the prominent Italian filmmaker who offered us the excellent 2018

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