Golden Globes 2019: Alfonso Cuaron wins Best Director; his Mexican drama Roma bags Best Foreign Language Film

Alfonso Cuaron’s critically loved _Roma_ took home two trophies — Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director — at the Golden Globe Awards. [caption id=“attachment_5850671” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]  Alfono Cuaron at Golden Globes 2019. Twitter[/caption] The Academy Award-winning director, who is widely expected to win major nominations at the Oscars again with the semi-autobiographical black-and-white drama, said, “Cinema at its best tears down walls and builds bridges to other cultures.” Inspired by his childhood memories of growing up in the Mexico City in the first two years of the 1970s, Roma follows a domestic worker employed by a middle class family. The title refers to a neighbourhood in Mexico City, Colonia Rom. Cuaron said “as we cross these bridges” and experience 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.” Roma made its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival where it took home the Golden Lion, the top honour of the festival. The film received a limited theatrical run before its release on Netflix. The other nominees in the category included Capernaum (Lebanon), Girl (Belgium), Never Look Away (Germany) and Shoplifters (Japan). Cuaron thanked his leading ladies — Yaltiza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira — for “all of what they did in this film” as well as Ted Sarandos and “all the Netflix team that really made an amazing effort to bring this film all around the world.” In the Best Director - Motion Picture category, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker was nominated alongside Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara ( _The Favourite_ ), Barry Jenkins ( _If Beale Street Could Talk_ ), Adam McKay ( _Vice_ ), and Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Brian Currie ( _Green Book)_ . The film was also nominated in the Best Screenplay - Motion Picture category, but Green Book took home the prize. Roma was ineligible for a Best Picture nod because the category is reserved “exclusively for English-language motion pictures”.