Los rivales de "Roma" serán la surcoreana "Burning", de Lee Chang-Dong; la británica "The Favourite", de Yorgos Lanthimos; la italiana "Happy as Lazzaro", de Alice Rohrwacher; y la japonesa "Shoplifters", de Kore-eda Hirokazu.
Cuatro candidaturas obtuvieron las cintas "You Were Never Really Here", "First Reformed" y "Eighth Grade".
Las aspirantes al trofeo de mejor película son "Eighth Grade", "First Reformed", "If Beale Street Could Talk", "Leave No Trace" y "You Were Never Really Here".
Mientras que el premio al mejor director estará entre Debra Granik ("Leave No Trace"), Barry Jenkins ("If Beale Street Could Talk"), Tamara Jenkins ("Private Life"), Lynne Ramsay ("You Were Never Really Here") y Paul Schrader ("First Reformed").
El galardón a la mejor actriz pondrá en liza a Glenn Close ("The Wife"), Toni Collette ("Hereditary"), Elsie Fisher ("Eighth Grade"), Regina Hall ("Support the Girls"), Helena Howard ("Madeline's Madeline") y Carey Mulligan ("Wildlife").
Y en el terreno masculino, los aspirantes son John Cho ("Searching"), Daveed Diggs ("Blindspotting"), Ethan Hawke ("First Reformed"), Christian Malheiros ("Sócrates") y Joaquin Phoenix ("You Were Never Really Here").