LOS ANGELES - Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron won the best director Oscar on Sunday for his semi-autobiographical film, Roma. Cuaron, 57, also took home the director Oscar for space movie Gravity in 2014.
Cuaron was favourite for the directing Oscar after winning multiple accolades for his lusciously shot black-and-white portrait of a domestic worker who cares for a middle class family in 1970s Mexico City.
Cuaron has said the film, made in Spanish and an indigenous language, was inspired by his own memories of growing up with his family in the Colonia Roma neighbourhood of Mexico City. He also wrote and produced the film, which was made with mostly amateur or little known actors.
In a November 2018 Reuters interview, Cuaron called the film "the story of one of the human beings that I love the most. One of the women that raised me."
Roma was the most personal of the films directed by Cuaron, whose career began in television in Mexico in the early 1990s.
Moving between Mexico and Hollywood, Cuaron's movies have spanned a range of styles and subject matter, including the sexually explicit road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001), an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (1998), box office smash Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004) and the space thriller Gravity (2013).
GREEN BOOK WINS BEST PICTURE
Civil rights dramedy "Green Book," the tale of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s, claimed the best picture Oscar on Sunday.
It bested seven other films: "Black Panther," "BlacKkKlansman," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "The Favourite," "Roma," "A Star Is Born" and "Vice."
WINNERS' LIST:
Best Picture: "Green Book"
Director: Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma"
Actor: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Actress:Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, "Green Book"
Supporting Actress: Regina King, "If Beale Street Could Talk"
Original Screenplay: "Green Book"
Adapted Screenplay: "BlackKklansman"
Foreign Language Film: "Roma"
Animated Feature: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
Sound Editing: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Visual Effects: "First Man"
Animated Short: "Bao"
Live Action Short: "Skin"
Documentary Short: "Period. End of Sentence."
Original Score: "Black Panther"
Original Song: "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born"
Production Design: "Black Panther"
Cinematography: "Roma"
Costume Design: "Black Panther"
Makeup and Hairstyling: "Vice"
Documentary Feature: "Free Solo"
Sound Mixing: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
