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Oscars 2019: Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron won the Best Director honour for his black-and-white semi-autobiographical film Roma.
It is the second Best Directing Award for Cuaron who had earlier won it for space drama “Gravity” in 2014.
“I thank the Academy for recognising a film centred on an indigenous woman, one of the 70 million domestic workers without workers’ rights,” Cuaron said at the gala on Sunday night.
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He described “Roma” as a film that brings to the fore the sort of character more often relegated to the background in films, “at a time when we are being encouraged to look away”.
Cuaron also thanked his actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, saying “they are the film”.
“Gracias, Gracias, Gracias,” he ended his speech in Mexican style.