Oscars: Every Best Picture Nominee Of The 2010s - Ranked Worst To Best
10. Roma
Of all the 2019 Best Picture nominees, Roma is the only one that you’d put into even the strongest of years and call a serious contender. It’s the only one that should be deemed a true masterpiece.
Simply on a technical level, it’s a wonder: the direction, cinematography, production design, sound, editing and so on all work in perfect harmony, each worthy of an award yet complementing the larger whole in a way that allows the film to feel both grandiose and intimate.
Alongside those feats, though, is a story that is human to its very core. You couldn’t say this is a film with a lot of plot in a conventional sense, but that’s not really the point. The point is that this is life. It’s beautiful. It’s ugly. It’s overwhelmingly happy, devastatingly sad, and a lot of the time mundane. In all of those moments, Roma finds a way of capturing the enduring human spirit, the connections we make, the love we forge. It is simply stunning.
JH