May 7, 2019 (XXXVIII: 14) Alfonso Cuarón: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004, 142m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Spelling and Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Alfonso Cuarón WRITING J.K. Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay) PRODUCED BY Chris Columbus, David Heyman, and Mark Radcliffe CINEMATOGRAPHY Michael Seresin MUSIC John Williams EDITING Steven Weisberg At the 2005 Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Oscars for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score and Best Achievement in Visual Effects. CAST Daniel Radcliffe...Harry Potter Richard Griffiths...Uncle Vernon Pam Ferris...Aunt Marge Fiona Shaw...Aunt Petunia Devon Murray ...Seamus Finnegan Harry Melling...Dudley Dursley Warwick Davis...Wizard Adrian Rawlins...James Potter David Bradley ...Argus Filch Geraldine Somerville...Lily Potter Michael Gambon... Albus Dumbledore Lee Ingleby...Stan Shunpike Alan Rickman... Professor Severus Snape Lenny Henry...Shrunken Head Maggie Smith...Professor Minerva McGonagall Jimmy Gardner...Ernie the Bus Driver Robbie Coltrane...Rubeus Hagrid Gary Oldman...Sirius Black Matthew Lewis...Neville Longbottom Jim Tavaré...Tom the Innkeeper Sitara Shah...Parvati Patel Robert Hardy...Cornelius Fudge Jennifer Smith...Lavender Brown Abby Ford...Young Witch Maid Tom Felton...Draco Malfoy Rupert Grint...Ron Weasley Bronson Webb...Slytherin Boy Emma Watson...Hermione Granger Josh Herdman...Gregory Goyle Oliver Phelps...George Weasley Genevieve Gaunt...Pansy Parkinson James Phelps...Fred Weasley Kandice Morris...Girl 1 Chris Rankin...Percy Weasley Alfred Enoch...Dean Thomas Julie Walters...Mrs. Molly Weasley Dawn French...Fat Lady in Painting Bonnie Wright ...Ginny Weasley Annalisa Bugliani...Mother in Portrait Mark Williams...Mr. Arthur Weasley Tess Bu Cuarón...Baby in Portrait David Thewlis ...Professor Lupin Violet Columbus...Girl With Flowers Cuarón—HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN—2 Paul Whitehouse...Sir Cadogan Achievement in Directing and for Best Achievement in Emma Thompson...Professor Sybil Trelawney Cinematography and was, once again, nominated for Best Ekow Quartey...Boy 1 Motion Picture of the Year. He has also helmed several Rick Sahota...Boy 2 (as Ricky Sahota) large-scale projects adapting literary works, most notably Jamie Waylett...Vincent Crabbe the 2004 adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Sharon Sandhu...Girl 2 Azkaban, a film he was perhaps trusted with given his Danielle Tabor...Angelina Johnson (as Danni Tabor) calling card adaptations of A Little Princess (1995) and Julie Christie...Madame Rosmerta Great Expectations (1998) combined with his recent Freddie Davies...Old Man in Portrait (as Freddie Davis) success with Y Tu Mamá También, lending what was Peter Best...The Executioner considered a safe, family franchise with a substantial edge. Timothy Spall...Peter Pettigrew These are some of the other films and TV series he has directed: Who's He Anyway*** (Short) (1983) and Hora Marcada (TV Series) (1989-1990). As a producer, he notably produced Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). These are some other films he produced: Camino largo a Tijuana (1988), Sólo con Tu Pareja (1991), Cronicas (2004), The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), The Possibility of Hope (Video documentary short) (2007), The Shock Doctrine (Documentary short) (2007), Rudo y Cursi (2008), and Desierto (2015). He did cinematography for films such as: Recuerdo de Xochimilco (Short) (1981), Hora Marcada (TV Series) (1988-1990), and El motel de la muerte (TV Movie) (1990). He also wrote for films and television series, such as: Believe (TV Series) (2014). Finally, he also edited films such as: Vengeance Is Mine** (Short) (1983). ALFONSO CUARÓN (b. November 28, 1961 in Mexico *Producer City, Distrito Federal, Mexico) studied philosophy at the **Cinematographer National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and ***Editor filmmaking at CUEC (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos), a school within the same university. J.K. ROWLING (b. 31 July 1965 (age 53), Yate, Speaking on the autobiographical nature of his latest, Gloucestershire, England) conceived the idea for the Harry Oscar-winning film Roma (2018), Cuarón says: “[Jorge Potter book series while on a delayed train from Luis] Borges talks about how memory is an opaque, Manchester to London in 1990, while she was working as a shattered mirror, but I see it more as a crack in the wall. researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty The crack is whatever pain happened in the past. We tend International. She worked on the first novel during a very to put several coats of paint over it, trying to cover that difficult period of her life--losing her mother, becoming a crack. But it’s still there.” As a film director (17 credits), mother, and going through a divorce, being left in relative Cuarón has managed to carve out a career as both a poverty. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (in the critically acclaimed auteur, often writing (17 credits), U.S. titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), was editing (10 credits), producing (11 credits), and doing published in 1997, becoming the best-selling book series in cinematography (11 credits) for films he directs and as a history. They have also been the basis for a film series, skilled helmsman for ambitious, commercially successful over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts adaptations. As an auteur, he has directed, written, and and was a producer on the final films in the series. In 2007, edited films such as Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), for the year the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Deathly Hallows, was published, Time named her a runner- Children of Men (2006), for which he was nominated for up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, Oscars for Best Writing and Best Achievement in Film and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October Editing, Gravity* (2013), for which he won Oscars for Best 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Achievement in Directing (he was the Latin-American Britain" by leading magazine editors. filmmaker to win for directing) and Best Achievement in Film Editing and for which he was nominated for Best STEVE KLOVES (Born: March 18, 1960 in Austin, Motion Picture of the Year, and Roma* **(2018), a semi- Texas) began his career in 1984 writing for the film Racing autobiographical film he had begun working on in 2006 with the Moon. He moved to writing and directing with his and for which he, again, won an Oscar for Best next two projects, 1989’s The Fabulous Baker Boys and Cuarón—HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN—3 1993’s Flesh and Bone. He moved back to writing, earning on the Fourth of July (1989), Home Alone (1990), JFK an Oscar nomination for Best Writing for his adaptation of (1991), Hook (1991), Sabrina (1995), Nixon (1995), Michael Chabon’s novel Wonder Boys (2000). The Sleepers (1996), Amistad (1997), Saving Private Ryan following year, he got the opportunity to write for the film (1998), Angela's Ashes (1999), The Patriot (2000), Harry adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Artificial Sorcerer’s Stone. He would go on to adapt every film in Intelligence: AI (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), the series. After writing the screenplay for the 2012 The Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Munich Amazing Spider-Man, he returned to the world of J.K. (2005), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), War Horse (2011), Rowling, producing the Fantastic Beasts films, a Harry The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Lincoln (2012), The Book Potter franchise. These are the other films in the Harry Thief (2013), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Potter series he wrote for: Harry Potter and the Chamber (2015), and Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of (2017). He has also composed many scores for other films, Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire including: Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1958), Daddy-O (2005), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), (1958), Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series) (1959), I Passed Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (Short) (2010), for White (1960), Bachelor Father (TV Series) (1959- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and 1960), Checkmate (TV Series) (1960-1962), A Guide for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). the Married Man (1967), Story of a Woman (1970), The Cowboys (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Man Who MICHAEL SERESIN (b. July 17, 1942 in Wellington, Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Paper Chase (1973), New Zealand) is a cinematographer (33 credits) who has Conrack (1974), The Sugarland Express (1974), The Eiger worked on films such as: The Ragman's Daughter (1972), Sanction(1975), Family Plot (1976), The Missouri Breaks The Probability Factor (1976), Bugsy Malone (1976), (1976), Midway (1976), Black Sunday (1977), The Fury Sleeping Dogs (1977), Midnight Express (1978), Foxes (1978), Dracula (1979), 1941 (1979), Superman II (1980), (1980), Fame (1980), Shoot the Moon (1982), Birdy Stanley & Iris (1990), Presumed Innocent (1990), Far and (1984), Angel Heart (1987), Come See the Paradise Away (1992), Gilligan's Island (TV Series) (1964-1992), (1990), City Hall (1996), Mercury Rising (1998), Angela's Jurassic Park (1993), Rosewood (1997), The Lost World: Ashes (1999), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Jurassic Park (1997), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Saving (2004), Step Up (2006), All Good Things (2010), Dawn of Private Ryan (1998), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the the Planet of the Apes (2014), War for the Planet of the Clones (2002), Minority Report (2002), Harry Potter and Apes (2017), and Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018).