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For your consideration, this is: Get to Know an Oscar Movie.

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(Previously:Widows,If Beale Street Could Talk.)

The campaign message:A beloved auteur uses all his considerable gifts to re-create the world of his childhood.

Even the competition says so!

Yeah, ROMA is fucking glorious.

So wonderful to see an artist operating at peak performance level on such a personal, vigorous piece.

The aesthetic is both personal and political here.

The aesthetic is wielded to a wonderfully emotive, devastating effect.

), and the advantage of the Netflix marketing budget.

Underestimate him at your peril.

It might be a busy night for Cuaron, who shot the film himself and also co-edited it.

With apologies toThe Kissing Booth, this is Netflixs best chance at cracking the Best Picture race.