Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Mexican drama Roma bagged two awards — Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director — at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. Cuaron received a rousing applause for the honours, and he thanked his film’s producers as well as Netflix for “bringing this very unlikely film into the mainstream awareness”.
“I feel a little bit like cheating accepting this award because most of what I was doing was just to witness and enjoy these actors who just exist on the screen,” he said, lauding his two leads Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira.
Roma is inspired by Cuaron’s own experience growing up in Mexico in the ’70s. “Another part of me is telling me that in reality, this film was directed by Libo, by my mother and my family, and more importantly, the place. This very complex land, that shaped and created me,” he said.
Roma was competing against Capernaum (Lebanon), Girl (Belgium), Never Look Away (Germany) and Shoplifters (Japan) for Best Foreign Language Film.
“As we cross these bridges, these new experiences, new shapes and faces, we begin to realise that while they may be strange, they are not unfamiliar. We begin to understand exactly how much we have in common,” he added. In the Best Director category, Alfonso Cuaron competed against Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born, Peter Farrelly for Green Book , Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman and Adam McKay for Vice.
