“I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman, one of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights, a character that historically has been relegated in the background in cinema,” said Alfonso Cuarón, who won Best Director and Best Cinematography for his semi-autobiographical film Roma, a deeply personal film about his childhood and beloved caregiver in Mexico City. “As artists our jobs are to look where others don’t. This responsibility becomes much more important in times when we are being encouraged to look away.”
Roma had been nominated in a total of 10 categories and won three Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film. The win for the filmmaker is also a win for Netflix who qualified Roma for Oscar consideration with a three-week release in theaters before it was offered to audiences on its streaming platform.
Cuarón has followed the same...
Roma had been nominated in a total of 10 categories and won three Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film. The win for the filmmaker is also a win for Netflix who qualified Roma for Oscar consideration with a three-week release in theaters before it was offered to audiences on its streaming platform.
Cuarón has followed the same...
- 2/25/2019
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
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