The Best Scenes from Alfonso Cuaron’s Films

Alfonso Cuaron in the 15 shorts and features he's directed has racked up quite the resume. He's done literary adaptations and his own original work. With his recent Oscar nomination, Cuaron is continuing to give us some of the best films in the business.

After finding out the youngest person on Earth was just murdered, Clive Owen's Theo Faron leaves disheartened from a coffee shop. Moments later, the store is destroyed by a massive bomb, killing everyone inside, showing how the last inhabitants on earth have turned on each other, even in moments of despair.

Best friends Julio Zapata and Tenoch Iturbide are nearing the end of their travels with the beautiful Luisa Cortes when they find themselves in a bar drinking the night away. The lovely, older Luisa plays a song on the jukebox and begins to slowly dance, seducing the boys who have wanted to be with her for so long. At the end of her dance, she makes the boys, and the audience, love her.

In a dream sequence, newly-orphaned Sara Crewe remembers her past life in India where she is surrounded by beauty. In the scene, she shows best friend, Becky the beauty of India as they welcome the day while standing on the head of a Hindu statue.

As the soundtrack swells in the background, Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke) runs in the rain to a restaurant where his life-long love Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow) is eating dinner with her suitor and friends. Finn interrupts the dinner to ask her to dance, despite the lack of music. She offers her hand and they sway in the middle of the restaurant, where he then takes her hand, leading her outside so they can passionately kiss in the street.

Remus Lupin teaches his class about defending themselves again Boggarts, a fierce shapeshifter that morphs into a person's deepest nightmares. The class practices their charms to defend themselves, one by one using a Riddikulus charm on the creature, thus turning the beast into an object of laughter.

Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi thriller is leaving audiences on the edge of their seats, as both filmgoers and critics continue to generate massive buzz. Featuring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, Gravity was the season's first major studio film to generate Oscar buzz.