Oscars 2019: Alfonso Cuaron wins Best Director for Roma
The Mexican director won the same award for Gravity in 2013
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Your support makes all the difference.Roma filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron has won the Oscar for Best Director.
The Mexican director, who won the same award for Gravity in 2013, beat Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War) and Adam McKay (Vice) to reign supreme. Cuaron also won Best Cinematography for his work on the film.
The Netflix-released film marks Cuaron’s most personal to date, as it draws deeply from his own childhood growing up in Mexico City, with the film’s protagonist, Yalitza Aparicio’s Cleo, based on Liboria “Libo” Rodríguez, a Mixtec woman from the swall town of Tepelmeme who was hired as a domestic worker by Cuarón’s family when he was nine months old.
The films vying for success at this year’s ceremony included Alfonso Cuaron’s Netflix drama Roma , the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga musical A Star is Born and Green Book, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. The former led with 10 alongside The Favourite, with McKay’s political satire Vice following close behind with eight.
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