Alfonso Cuarón Wins <br />Best Director for 'Roma' <br />at 2019 Oscars 'Roma' also won awards for<br />best cinematography and <br />best foreign language film. with Cuarón <br />accepting all three. The filmmaker previously won best director in 2014 for the film Gravity. Set in Mexico City during the 1970s, <br />Roma tells the story of an indigenous <br />domestic worker named Cleo. Cuarón made history <br />at the 91st Academy Awards for winning both as the cinematographer and <br />director of the same film.