Critics' Choice Awards 2019: 'Roma' wins big, takes home four awards including Best Picture
The 24th Annual Critics' Choice Awards was held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica where Hollywood's best and brightest were awarded. The event hosted by Taye Diggs resulted in 'Roma' taking home four awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuarón, and Best Foreign Language Film. 'Black Panther' and 'Vice' followed close behind, each winning in three categories.
'Roma' has had a successful run of the festival circuit where it bagged the prestigious Golden Lion at Venice as well. Cuaron's semi-autobiographical film follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to an upper-middle-class family and stars debutant Yalitza Aparicio. With its visual and thematic brilliance, the film can easily be called the most beautiful film of the year.
When the night began it was 'The Favorite' which was leading with 14 nominations, but despite those odds it only managed to take home two trophies. 'Roma', however, had quite the competition when it came to the other nominees for the award which included 'Mary Poppins Returns', 'Vice', 'A Star is Born', 'If Beale Street Could Talk', 'Green Book', 'First Man', 'The Favorite', 'BlacKkKlansman', and the Ryan Coogler-directed Marvel Studios film 'Black Panther'.