The biggest Academy awards group of this year is also the one most sportsbooks are providing for Oscar gambling. Nine different New Jersey sportsbooks have chances on the Oscar for Best Picture.
It’s an intriguing race, too, more wide open than most. The 2019 race does have a frontrunner but doesn’t own a slam dunk. However, if Roma is the movie to beat, what is unclear is which film is the movie to beat it. The significant awards have gone to a range of films. Traditional indicators of what film will win point numerous different directions. Here is a look at what each of the eight nominees has going for and against it.
ROMA
Written and directed by Alfonso Cuar??n (of Y Tu Mam?? Tambi??n, Children of Men, Gravity), Roma is a semi-autobiographical take about the filmmaker’s upbringing in Mexico City. Set in 1970, the film follows the life of a middle-class family and their live-in housekeeper (played by first-time actress Yalitza Aparicio). The Netflix-produced movie received universal praise from critics and movie enthusiasts for Cuar??n’s screenplay, direction and cinematography.
Roma received 10 nominations at the Academy Awards Best Picture
Best Foreign Language Film
Finest Director Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
The film combined as the most-nominated film with The Favourite. Furthermore, it’s connected with 2000’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the most Oscar nominations ever received by a non-English vocabulary film.
Cuar??n’s deeply personal film is a lock for Best Foreign Language Film. As for Best Picture, foreign films do not have much luck in this category. Roma is only the fifth picture to be nominated for both categories in the same year. The past four — Z, Life Is Wonderful, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Amour — won Best Foreign Language Film although not Best Picture.
Roma has a lot of history working against it, but if anyone can beat the odds, it’s Cuar??n. He became the first Latin American director to win the Academy Award for Best Director with Gravity in 2014. And with its primary competition, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, losing steam as the season comes to a finish, Cuar??n’s black foreign language picture has suddenly emerged as the frontrunner in the group.
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