| Won a 1993 Cable ACE Award for Best Director for his first English-language work, an episode of the Showtime mystery series Fallen Angels. |
| First English feature film, 1995 World War I drama A Little Princess, won Cuaron the New Generation Award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. |
| Made feature-film directing debut with 1991's Solo Con Tu Pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria), a black comedy dealing with AIDS. |
| Controversial 2001 drama Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) won Best Foreign Film at the New York Film Critics Awards and was nominated for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Scree |