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Oscars 2019: Green Book wins Best Picture; BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee storms out during ceremony

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Spike Lee’s action and veiled words seem to be in response to controversies that plagued Green Book, in the run-up to its Oscars 2019 Best Picture win.

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Oscars 2019: Green Book wins Best Picture; BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee storms out during ceremony

In a surprise win, Peter Farrelly’s biographical comedy-drama _Green Book_ , received the Best Picture honour at the 91st Academy Awards upstaging award season favourite Roma. The film, featuring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, was based on the real-life story of Dr. Don Shirley, an African-American jazz pianist and composer, who embarks on a cross-country tour that necessitates hiring a white driver Tony Vallelonga (Mortensen) to assist him as a bodyguard while he travels through America’s racially-divided Southern states. Green Book stopped Roma, Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white love letter to his childhood, from making a clean sweep at the Oscars where it had already won Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film trophies. [caption id=“attachment_6147991” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] ![Director Peter Farrelly and the cast of Green Book accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture. Image via The Associated Press](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GreenBook825-min.jpg) Director Peter Farrelly and the cast of Green Book accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture. Image via The Associated Press[/caption] Other films nominated in the category were Black Panther, Vice, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and A Star Is Born. Hollywood star Julia Roberts presented the top honour of the ceremony to the cast and crew of the film including director Farrelly, actors Mortensen, Ali and Linda Cardillini. “The whole story is about love. This is about loving each other despite our differences and finding out about the truth of who we are, we are the same people,” Farrelly said while accepting the award. He gave a shout out to Mortensen, saying, “We have no movie (without you). All these awards are because of Viggo and Mahershala and Linda but it all started with Viggo. I give you this my friend.” The director also thanked veteran filmmaker Steven Spielberg who had helped the film’s producers in getting a distributor. Producer Jim Burke said the team put their heart and soul in the film. “We made this film with love and we made it with tenderness. We made it with respect. It was all under the direction of Pete Farrelly,” he said. Apart from the biggest award of the night, Green Book also gave Ali his second best supporting Oscar win besides its win in the Best Original Screenplay category. However, not everyone at the Oscars seemed happy with Green Book winning the Best Picture. According to a Variety report, Spike Lee, director of  BlacKkKlansman , was seen trying to leave the show before the speeches concluded. Several reporters present at the award show also noticed Lee angrily waving his arms before trying to storm out, the report adds. Variety quotes Lee as saying backstage, “I’m snakebit. Every time someone’s driving somebody, I lose,” referring to his film, Do the Right Thing, losing the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1990 to Driving Miss Daisy. Lee’s action and veiled words seem to be in response to a controversy that plagued the Best Picture winner. Green Book, one of the most critically acclaimed projects of the year, had a rough Oscar campaign, courtesy controversies involving Mortensen, Farrelly and the film’s writer Nick Vallelonga, son of real-life Tony Vallelonga. Mortensen, 60, had come under fire on social media for using the N-word during a panel discussion after the screening of the film, while Farrelly found himself embroiled in a controversy after an old report resurfaced where he admitted to flashing his privates as a joke. Following the revelation, the director had issued an apology. Even Vallelonga faced backlash when his old tweets resurfaced in which he claimed to have witnessed thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrate the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which turned out to be a fake news. With inputs from The Press Trust of India

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