Netflix just took home a major victory in the ongoing race to the Oscars.
The New York Film Critics Circle on Thursday named Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, a Netflix original film, the best movie of 2018. Cuarón also took home the awards for best director and best cinematography. These winners are determined by by New York-based film critics, and their choices each year are often aligned with the eventual Academy Award nominations. Since 2008, every movie that won best film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards has also earned an Academy Award nomination except for one: 2015's Carol. Only three times in the past decade has the same film won both awards, though: No Country for Old Men, The Hurt Locker, and The Artist. Last year, New York's critics awarded Lady Bird the top prize, but it did not win any Oscars.
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