30 Greatest Best Picture Oscar Nominees Of The Last Ten Years
14. Roma
Roma, the greatest film in the 2019 line-up, is another tour-de-force from writer-director Alfonso Cuaron.
This one is by far his most personal project, since it's heavily inspired by his own childhood, and when watching Roma one gets the sense of one of our greatest living filmmakers pouring his heart and soul onto the screen, creating a beautifully emotional epic shot with eye-wateringly gorgeous black-and-white cinematography.
It's a powerful and passionate masterwork that, aside from an occasionally languid pace, rarely puts a foot wrong.
Roma was the film that everyone wanted and expected to win at the 91st Academy Awards, but tragically this became the Brokeback Mountain of the 2010s: A truly great work that lost to a completely inferior movie (although Green Book is nowhere near as bad as Crash, in fairness).