Alfonso Cuarón: "This price belongs to Mexico"

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, whose film "Roma" won three Oscars, said that without Mexico, he would not celebrate his triumph at today 's big cinema gala.

"It's a Mexican movie. This price belongs to Mexico. It's not just that 95% of the team and 100% of the cast are Mexican, but the theme, the landscape, everything is Mexico. This band would not exist without Mexico. And I could not be here if there was not Mexico"he said Cuarón at the press conference after the ceremony.

Cuarón awarded the Oscars a better direction and better photography today, while "Roma" marked history by giving Mexico the first statuette in the category of best non-English speaking film.

The prize for the management of "Rome" is the fifth best director's statue that has traveled to Mexico in the last six years, thanks to the extraordinary work of "The Three Friends", a group formed by Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.

Cuarón won in 2014 for "Gravity", Iñárritu did the same in 2015 and 2016 for "Birdman" and "The Revenant", and Del Toro triumphed in 2018 with "The Shape of Water".

Cuarón today received the Oscar of Del Toro, with whom he made a big hug, and then underlined to the media the work of the protagonists of "Roma".

More specifically, he emphasized the work of Yalitza Aparicio, who praised the fact that he had not made a film before and that he not only learned Mixtec "with perfect intonation and accent", but that he also managed to speak it about really emotional way.

In addition, the director was very satisfied with the fact that a film "so personal" opened the debate on racism or the terrible situation of domestic workers.

"I can not be more proud of this conversation (about domestic workers) because it should have happened not years or decades, but probably centuries, it's a very good thing but it's very late" , did he declare.

Finally, he hoped that "Rome" would pave the way for a greater representation of Hispanics in cinema and a greater echo of Latin cinema.

"(Prices) facilitate the doors for the appreciation of cinema in our language in general, and Mexican in particular (…). I am happy that & # 39; Roma & # 39; be celebrated in this way, but I think that this year and before there have been films as important as "Roma" that have not found their place. Let's hope that "the Roma" will facilitate some of these doors.