Roma nominated for Best Foreign Film at Academy Awards

Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film

has now been selected among nine moves to compete for the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards .

The Academy issued a press release to announce the nine movies that would move on to the second round of voting for the Awards nominees.

Roma, by Cuarón

, will compete against Cold War, by Pawel Pawlikowski; The Guilty, by Gustav Möller; Never Look Away, by Florian Henckel von Donnercmarck, and Shoplifters, by Hirokazu Kore-eda , among others.

A few days ago, the film was also nominated for three Golden Globe awards : one for Best Picture in a Foreign Language , one for Best Screenplay , and Alfonso Cuarón himself was nominated for Best Director .

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