Alfonso Cuarón ('Roma') wins three Oscars but misses out on the best film award given to 'Green Book'

At the 91st Academy Awards, 'Roma' finally won three awards (best cinematography, best direction and best foreign language film), beating the Oscar for best film.

Of the four nominations to which Alfonso Cuaron competed with Rome in the 91st edition of the Hollywood Academy Awards It finally won three, resisting the award for best film: the Oscar for best photography, best direction and best foreign language film, leaving behind those also nominated in the category, Capernaum (Lebanon), Never Look Away (Germany), Shoplifters (Japan) and Cold war (Poland). It should be noted that this is the first time that a Mexican production has won the Oscar for best foreign film.

Cuarón also convinced the Academy for his detailed black and white photography in Roma, desbancando and Łukasz Żal (Cold War), Robbie Ryan (The favourite), Caleb Deschanel (Never Look Away) y Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born).

The Mexican director also won his second Oscar as a director after winning the golden statuette in 2014 for Gravity. The Oscar for directing is the fifth best director statuette that has gone to Mexico in the last six years thanks to the extraordinary work of those known as “the three friends”: Alfonso Cuarón himself, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.

The filmmaker wrote, produced, directed, filmed and edited Roma under an unconventional “baton” since sometimes the actors knew the script on the day of filming, thus opening the doors to a naturalness that is difficult to achieve on the big screen. In turn, the film's sound mix is ​​so intricately detailed that the director has said that the size of its data files is one of the largest ever created in Dolby Atmos. The result is a lively and sensual journey through the filmmaker's childhood.

When collecting the Oscar, Alfonso Cuarón acknowledged that “creating a single shot requires the work of many people, and the first people I want to thank are (actresses) Yalitza Aparicio and Marina De Tavira.”

"Thanks to the entire team, the producers and Netflix. This film was created based on my memories and I took the photograph thinking about how 'Chivo' Lubezki would do it. This is for you," Cuarón stressed.

Although it is not uncommon for directors to serve as their own cinematographers, as is the case with Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson, Cuarón was the first to be nominated in both categories in the same year, ultimately winning the award for best cinematography.

As for the only Spanish representation nominated for the Oscar, the short film Madre, of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, left empty-handed due to the triumph of Skin, directed by Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman, in this category.

Green Book, best film

Green Book, the first foray of Peter Farrelly In dramatic terrain, he achieved Oscar for best filma, best supporting actor to Mahershala Ali y best original screenplay. For its part, another of the night's favorites, Black Panther, won the Oscar for best original soundtrack, better locker room and better production designn.

The award to the visual effects went to Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm for his work in First Man. Finally, note that the Oscar for best assemblyand went to stop John Ottman for Bohemian Rhapsody. Directed by Bryan Singer, the biopic about Freddy Mercury has also achieved the Oscar for Best Actor (Rami Malek), Best Sound Editing (John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone) y Sound mixing (Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali).

Olivia Colman gave the surprise by winning the award for best actress for her role as Queen Anne Stuart of England in The favorite (by Yorgos Lanthimos), displacing other actresses who were favorites such as Glenn Close, Yalitza Aparicio, Lady Gaga and Melissa McCarthy

The award for the best animated film it was for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.