Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron has experimented before with styles and genres, from space epic `Gravity` to road trip coming-of-age tale `Y Tu Mama Tambien` to fantasy flick `Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.` But with `Roma,` his highly acclaimed autobiographical love letter to his childhood, he flipped the script, so to speak -- a lot of the time, the actors didn`t even have the whole script. He filmed chronologically, in black and white, and did the filming himself. Sometimes he gave the cast contradictory instructions to see what would happen, and if it would yield movie magic. Based on the 10 nominations his film earned for the Oscars on February 24 -- including four for Cuaron alone, for best picture, director, original
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