"Roma" is the not so surprising superstar of the 1st annual LEJA Awards
Monday, January 21, 2019 at 1:00PM 
We told you back in December about a new critics organization LEJA (Latino Entertainment Journalists Association) and they've announced their first year's worth of awards winners. Roma leads with TEN wins (nine proper plus a special award for Yalitza Aparacio as "Breakout," despite the fact that she also won Best Actress). The only other multiple winners were Black Panther (3), If Beale Street Could Talk (3), A Star is Born (2), and Into the Spider-Verse (2). They've mostly they avoided category fraud except in the messy Best Supporting Actor category where they rubberstamped Mahershala Ali. But we'll forgive that since they honored Bradley Cooper as Best Actor and he's been weirdly denied wins all season despite his multiple threat sucess with A Star is Born. The full list of LEJA winners is after the jump.
Picture of the Year Roma
Directing Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma”
Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper, “A Star is Born”
Actress in a Leading Role Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
Actor in a Supporting Role Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
Actress in a Supporting Role Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Original Screenplay “Roma” (Alfonso Cuaron)
Adapted Screenplay “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Barry Jenkins)
Ensemble Casting “Crazy Rich Asians” (Terri Taylor)
Production & Set Design “Roma” (Eugenio Caballero, Barbara Enriquez)
Cinematography “Roma” (Alfonso Cuaron)
Costume Design “Black Panther” (Ruth E. Carter)
Editing “Roma” (Alfonso Cuaron, Adam Gough)
Hair & Makeup “Black Panther”
Sound “Roma”
Visual Effects “Black Panther”
Music “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Nicholas Brittell)
Song Written for a Motion Picture “A Star is Born” (“Shallow” – written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt)
Best Animated Feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Best Foreign Language Film “Roma” – Mexico
Best Documentary Feature “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Stunts “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”
Voice or Motion Capture Performance Shameik Moore, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
The Rita Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award: Rita Moreno
Latino Activism Award: America Ferrera
Breakout Award: Yalitza Aparicio
Muy Mal Award: Donald J. Trump
LEJA Spotlight Award: Lin-Manuel Miranda
LEJA, Roma, film critics
Reader Comments (9)
The Muy Mal "award?" Seriously?
Laughed out loud a bit for that^
Given his approach to speech, this is a good comeback to "bad hombres".
So Donald tRump gets a Muy Mal award to go with his Razzie nomination today. He's an awards magnet!
Not to get off-topic, but Kelly Preston plays Travolta's daughter in Gotti?
Ew.
The amount of shit that The Help got for being too white and here we are going crazy with Roma.
Give awards to Trump isn't a smart way of criticism.
You could honor the Latino Experience by using accents.
Miss Jean -- ???
Doodie -- yeah, i dont like it when critics groups give out negative awards. There are a few that do this and it never sits right.
So the Rita Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award goes to... Rita Moreno. I LOL'd at that one. But so happy for Rita.