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Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography:
2019 — Alfonso Cuarón
Roma (2018)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

“Renowned Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel ‘Chivo’ Lubezki AMC ASC, whose previous work with Cuarón includes Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Children Of Men and Gravity, had prepped the first part of the production, but a scheduling conflict resulted in Cuarón taking over the photography on the film.

“In many ways, being my own cinematographer was a shortcut, because there were images springing directly out of my memory,” says Cuarón. “I’ve always been involved with the framing and composition for all of my films. It’s something that I design by the inch and discuss with Chivo. Sometimes when I was framing during the production of Roma, these memory smells would come to me and then I would know that I was going in the right direction!”

Cuarón adopted an observational approach for the camera, as he explains. “It’s like a ghost from the present visiting the past, which was the way I described it to the crew. I tried to avoid any cinematic language that conveyed subjectivity. For instance, there’s not one single dolly in or out. The funny thing with this one is I made use of a framing style that Chivo finds to be flat. The character is framed from the front as opposed to three-quarters.” — [x]

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YALITZA APARICIO
91st Annual Academy Awards | February 24, 2019

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MOONLIGHT OSCARS 2017

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You’re born with worthiness. I always felt like you had to be pretty, you had to be thin, you had to be young, you have to be… something. And now I know the truth. I’m worthy.

Viola Davis for Porter Magazine, March 2018

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Lady Bird dir. Greta Gerwig 

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America. They want someone to love, but they want someone to hate. And they want it easy. What’s easy? The haters always say, “Tonya, tell the truth!” There’s no such thing as truth. I mean, it’s bullshit! Everyone has their own truth. Life just does whatever the fuck it wants. That’s the story of my life, and that’s the fucking truth!

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best picture was won by a film where the main character is mute and uses sign language. her two best friends are a closeted gay man and a black woman. it was directed by a mexican immigrant and y'all wanna focus on the fact that there was interspecies boning?

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Guillermo Del Toro checking the envelope card for Best Picture before giving his speech