Three Mexican Directors Up for Oscars at Tonight's Academy Awards

Three esteemed Mexican film directors are up for Oscars at tonight's Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo del Toro "Hollywood often makes socks," Cuaron said. "I work with the studios when they decide they want to make a film and not socks." Guillermo del Toro In Guillermo Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth," up for six Oscars including best foreign-language film, fascist soldiers in post civil-war Spain torture rebels as an eyeless, child-devouring demon lurks nearby in a mysterious underworld. Alfonso Cuaron and his daughter Bu Writer-director Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of the P.D. James novel, "Children of Men," is set in a ruined, post-apocalyptic England. Cuaron directed the third Harry Potter film as well as "Y tu mamá también". Cuaron's take on Harry Potter brought an eerie depth and a sense of real danger. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film ...