Director
Alfonso Cuarón
5 films•2001–2018•Drama · Sci-Fi · Thriller
93%average critics82%average audience$114.6Mdomestic average
Films
5
2001–2018
Domestic
$573.2M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.62B
lifetime
Avg opening
$30.1M
3-day
Avg legs
3.79x
opening → total
Return
5.2x
on $311.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, from Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) to Roma (2018), together grossing $573.2M domestic and $1.62B worldwide. The biggest hit is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) at $796.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $93.7M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Roma | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | 96% | — |
 Gravity | 2013 | $55.8M | $274.0M | 4.91x | $723.0M | A- | 96% | #6 |
 Children of Men | 2006 | $501K | $35.6M | 71.0x | $69.8M | — | 92% | — |
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | $93.7M | $250.0M | 2.66x | $796.0M | A | 90% | #6 |
 Y Tu Mama Tambien | 2001 | $408K | $13.6M | 33.4x | $33.6M | — | 90% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 4.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.2x
$1.62B worldwide on $311.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $573.2MInternational $1.05B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.2x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
