Which Netflix film won the Golden Lion at the 2018 Venice International Film Festival? Roma won it.
Directed, written, produced, and shot by Alfonso Cuarón, Roma is a largely autobiographical drama set in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma during the early 1970s. It follows Cleo, an Indigenous Mixtec domestic worker, and the family she serves.
The film premiered on August 30, 2018, at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and became the first film distributed by a streaming service to win the festival’s top prize. Netflix acquired its distribution rights before the premiere and released it in theaters before streaming it.
Roma is sometimes confused with The Favourite, which was also a major 2018 Venice contender but did not win the Golden Lion. Roma later earned 10 Academy Award nominations and won three Oscars, including Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.