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"Green Book" would have been a good best picture winner in 1990, when "Driving Miss Daisy" took the top Oscar. Or in 2006, so we wouldn't have had to hear about "Crash" for the next decade.
"Green Book," which won the best picture Oscar on Sunday, is the inspiring true story of a warm Italian family — with Bergen County ties — that reached out across custom and culture in the ...
The story continues below the gallery. But that role, played in "Green Book" by the Oscar-nominated Mortensen, could be just the antipasto — the starter — in an Oscar banquet. Need a break?
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly accepted the award. “Green Book” took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards Sunday night, in a controversial win ...
(Ali's win for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, rather than Best Actor, says it all.) While "Green Book" has its charming moments, the underlying politics are simplistic at best. Dr. Shirley ...
"Green Book" is the worst-reviewed Oscar best picture winner since "Crash" in 2006. Both movies deal with race relations in America, and both have been lambasted by film critics for how they do so.
“Green Book,” set in 1962, is a feel-good liberal buddy movie that’s like a cross between “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Rain Man,” and 20 years ago, it would have been a slam-dunk Oscar ...
Many were dejected and annoyed Sunday evening when Green Book won the Academy Award for best picture, most notably first-time Oscar winner Spike Lee, who reportedly expressed disgust with his film ...
Variety senior correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister sat down with Owen Gleiberman to discuss “Green Book” — from Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali to Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen ...
“Green Book,” a slick crowd-pleaser set in the Deep ... Mortensen and Ali, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor, are superb performers with smooth timing and undeniable chemistry.
the 97th Academy Awards won’t be the first ceremony where the Best Picture victor inspired gasps and retroactive reflection on how certain titles came out of nowhere to secure the big Oscar ...