'Roma's' Alfonso Cuarón takes home three Oscars and sparks a dialogue about representation

It was a film that began as a reflection of a painful period in his childhood. Now it has earned him three more Academy Awards.

Alfonso Cuaron, whose meditative family drama "Roma" told the story of Cleo, an indigenous domestic worker who faces a battery of personal struggles as the family she serves falls apart, won three of the Oscars' most important categories: foreign language film, cinematography and directing.

In accepting his directing Oscar for the film, Cuaron noted the rarity of seeing a character such as Cleo represented on screen.

"I want to thank the academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman, one of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights, a