Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Number of nominations: 10 (3 wins)
Nominations included: Picture, director (won), cinematography (won), foreign-language film (won), lead actress, supporting actress, original screenplay, production design, sound editing, sound mixing
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 96%
What critics said: "Having seemingly mastered the Hollywood blockbuster, Cuarón appears to be setting his sights on a more intimate kind of filmmaking along the lines of the cinema's great humanists, like Yasujiro Ozu or Lucretia Martel." — The Wrap