Can Alfonso Cuarón be beat for the best director Oscar? Certainly, he’s the front-runner after the Directors Guild of America weighed in Saturday night, awarding Cuarón its top prize for directing the black-and-white film “Roma.” Nearly every D.G.A. winner repeats in this category at the Oscars, and Cuarón already has plenty of momentum after taking the best director honor from the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards last month. [Here’s a complete list of Oscar nominations.] “I really did not think this was mathematically possible,” Burnham said in his acceptance speech, and neither had most pundits, who predicted that the “Star Is Born” director Bradley Cooper would have this debut award sewn up.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2019 13:41 UTC