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

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