The New York Film Critics Online Awards Alfonso Cuaron with Three Prizes for “Roma”

Alfonso Cuaron is the celebrating big in the Big Apple

The New York Film Critics Online has announced their winners, with the 57-year-old Mexican filmmaker coming away the big winner with three prizes.

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

Cuaron’s Spanish-language drama Roma was named Best Picture, while he earned the Best Director award for helming the film.

Additionally, Cuaron took home the award for Best Cinematography for the semi-autobiographical take on Cuaron’s upbringing in Mexico City. The film follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to a middle-class family.

This marks the second Best Picture win for Roma, which was honored earlier in the day by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Here’s the complete list of winners:

Picture
Roma

Director
Alfonso Cuarón- Roma

Actor
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed

Actress
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Supporting Actor
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Supporting Actress
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

Screenplay
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara – The Favourite

Cinematography
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma

Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Foreign Language
Cold War

Ensemble Cast
The Favourite

Breakthrough Performer
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade

Debut as Director
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade

Use of Music
Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk

Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Top Ten (Alphabetical)

  1. BlackKklansman(Focus Features)
  2. Eight Grade (A24)
  3. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
  4. First Reformed (Fox Searchlight)
  5. Green Book (Universal)
  6. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
  7. Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
  8. Roma (Netflix)
  9. A Star if Born (Warner Bros.)
  10. Vice (Annapurna)

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