Roma on track for Oscar Best Picture nomination after LA Film Critics Association win
It was also the big winner at the New York Film Critics Circle
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Your support makes all the difference.ROMA, Alfonso Cuaron’s delicate film about his childhood in Mexico, has the Best Foreign Language category all but sewn up at the 2019 Academy Awards.
It also now has an outside shot of landing Best Picture too, as ROMA continues to pick up prizes on the awards circuit.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced its latest winners on Sunday, with Cuaron’s black and white epic being named Best Picture.
The LAFCA is a good barometer for which of the artier films the Oscars will lean towards, having last year named Call Me by your Name Best Picture (it went on to land a Best Picture nom at the Oscars).
Roma was also the Best Film winner at the New York Film Critics Circle and Chicago Film Critics Association, and won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Other winners on Sunday included Ethan Hawke for First Reformed and Olivia Colman for The Favourite, with Best Director going to Leave No Trace‘s Debra Granik.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Best Picture
Winner: ROMA
Runner-up: Burning
Best Director
Winner: Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Runner-up: Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA
Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Runner-up: Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Best Documentary
Runner-up: Minding the Gap
Winner: Shirkers
Best Screenplay
Winner: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, The Favourite
The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award
Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin, The Green Fog
Best Animation
Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Runner-up: Incredibles 2
Best Actress
Winner: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Toni Collette, Hereditary
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Runner-up: Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Editing
Winner: Joshua Altman and Bing Liu, Minding the Gap
Runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough, Roma
Best Production Design
Winner: Hannah Beachler, Black Panther
Runner-up: Fiona Crombie, The Favourite
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Steven Yeun, Burning
Runner-up: Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Best Music/Score
Winner: Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
Runner-up: Justin Hurwitz, First Man
Best Cinematography
Winner: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Runner-up: James Laxton, If Beale Street Could Talk
Career Achievement Award
Hayao Miyazaki
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