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Oscar watch: Is Netflix's heart-wrenching 'Roma' the film to beat this year?
NEW YORK — "Roma" is one of the very best films you're likely to see this year. But how far can it go in a jam-packed 2019 Oscar race?
That's the question awards prognosticators have been asking ever since the movie premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, bringing audiences to their feet at Toronto and Telluride fests in weeks after, before landing at New York Film Festival this weekend.
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But "Roma" has a silver bullet in Alfonso Cuaron, the visionary filmmaker behind 2013's Oscar-winning "Gravity," whose credits also include "Children of Men," "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Cuaron, 56, has long been beloved by critics and his industry peers, as one of Hollywood's so-called "Three Amigos" with fellow Mexican directors Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Birdman") and Guillermo del Toro ("The Shape of Water").
He's described "Roma" as his most deeply personal film yet, developed from his own memories growing up in Mexico City and based on his childhood babysitter.
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"Roma" has been hailed as an "epic, personal masterpiece" and Cuaron's "best film so far" by critics, with 98% positive reviews so far on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has been selected as Mexico's foreign-language Oscar submission, with pundits from The Hollywood Reporter and Indiewire already predicting that "Roma" could be the rare movie to earn nominations in both the best picture and best foreign-language film categories.
That's the question awards prognosticators have been asking ever since the movie premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, bringing audiences to their feet at Toronto and Telluride fests in weeks after, before landing at New York Film Festival this weekend.
...
But "Roma" has a silver bullet in Alfonso Cuaron, the visionary filmmaker behind 2013's Oscar-winning "Gravity," whose credits also include "Children of Men," "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Cuaron, 56, has long been beloved by critics and his industry peers, as one of Hollywood's so-called "Three Amigos" with fellow Mexican directors Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Birdman") and Guillermo del Toro ("The Shape of Water").
He's described "Roma" as his most deeply personal film yet, developed from his own memories growing up in Mexico City and based on his childhood babysitter.
...
"Roma" has been hailed as an "epic, personal masterpiece" and Cuaron's "best film so far" by critics, with 98% positive reviews so far on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has been selected as Mexico's foreign-language Oscar submission, with pundits from The Hollywood Reporter and Indiewire already predicting that "Roma" could be the rare movie to earn nominations in both the best picture and best foreign-language film categories.
