Are the Oscars telling us it doesn't matter how movies actually LOOK?

There's a wonderful behind-the-scenes photograph, in black-and-white like the film itself, of a street scene from Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma." It's full of lighting equipment, illuminating what look like several genuine Mexico City blocks, set-dressed to look like 1971.

It's not real. While much of "Roma," up for 10 Academy Awards, was filmed on real streets and sidewalks, the scene in the photograph first published by American Cinematographer magazine and then, later, the Chicago Tribune, is an illusion.

Cuaron and his designers poured cement, erected storefronts and created a life-size version