'Period', 'Roma', Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga And More: Get Ready For Oscars 2019

Alfonso Cuaron's black-and-white feature 'Roma' became the biggest contendor for most Oscar categories.

Marvel's 'Black Panther' surprised many for being the first ever superhero film to get nominated in the best picture category. The film has scored a total of seven nominations.

In Pic (L-R top): 'Black Panther', 'BlacKkKlansman', 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'The Favourite'
(L-R bottom): 'Green Book', 'Roma', 'A Star Is Born', 'Vice'

Actor Bradley Cooper missed out on the nomination for his direction in 'A Star Is Born', but made it to the Best Actor category.

Actor Willem Dafoe also managed to sneak into the best actor race for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's 'At Eternity's Gate'.

In Pic (L-R): Christian Bale for 'Vice', Rami Malek for 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Bradley Cooper for 'A Star Is Born', Viggo Mortensen for 'Green Book' and Willem Dafoe for 'At Eternity's Gate'

The biggest surprise in the Best Actress category was Yalitza Aparicio's nomination for 'Roma'.

In Pic (L-R): Lady Gaga for 'A Star Is Born', Yalitza Aparicio for 'Roma', Glenn Close for 'The Wife', Olivia Colman for 'The Favourite' and Melissa McCarthy for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

Spike Lee earned his first nomination for 'BlacKkKlansman', a comic and furious send-up of white supremacism. Apart from the best director category, the film won five other nominations, including best picture and best adapted screenplay.

Director Alfonso Cuaron's memoir of childhood set in 1970s Mexico City, 'Roma', also created history by becoming the first Netflix project to get nominated in the best picture category.

In Pic (L-R): Alfonso Cuaron for 'Roma', Pawel Pawlikowski for 'Cold War', Adam McKay for 'Vice', Spike Lee for 'BlacKkKlansman' and Yorgos Lanthimos for 'The Favourite'.

Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's semi-autobiographical black-and-white drama, 'Roma', topped the Oscar nominations with 10 nods.

The film scored nominations in best picture, best director (Cuaron), best actress (Yalitza Aparicio), best supporting actress (Marina De Tavira), best foreign language film, cinematography (Cuaron), original screenplay, sound mixing, sound editing and production design categories.

In Pic (from left, clockwise): Lebanon's 'Capernaum', Poland's 'Cold War', Japan's 'Shoplifters', Mexico's 'Roma' and Germany's 'Never Look Away'

A film on menstruation, set in rural India, titled 'Period. End of Sentence', was nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category for 2019 Oscars, among other movies. The film is directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and produced by Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment.

In Pic (from left, clockwise): 'Period. End of Sentence.' by LA's Oakwood School teacher Melissa Berton and director Rayka Zehtabchi, 'Black Sheep' by director Ed Perkins and producer Jonathan Chinn, 'Lifeboat' by producer Skye Fitzgerald and director Bryn Mooser, 'A Night at the Garden' by director Marshall Curry, and 'End Game' producer Jeffrey Friedman and director Rob Epstein