Green Book Wins Best Picture At 2019 Academy Awards

The Guardian reports:

Green Book has won the Oscar for best picture at the 91st Academy Awards. Based on a real-life road trip through the deep south in the early 1960s, Green Book triumphed in a field considered the most wide-open in years, containing the likes of Alfonso Cuarón’s 70-set drama Roma, period black comedy The Favourite, and Marvel superhero movie Black Panther.

Named after the motoring handbook originally designed to help African American travelers avoid dangerous areas in pre-civil rights US, Green Book is the story of black concert pianist Don Shirley and his Italian-American bodyguard/driver Tony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip.

The Washington Post reports:

The first major upset of the night came about three hours into the show — Olivia Colman won over Glenn Close, who dominated trophies throughout award season and was favored by many to win for “The Wife.” (She’s now zero for seven Oscar nominations.) Colman was in tears by the time she reached the stage, and her mouth was still wide open in surprise. It was the only award of the night for “The Favourite,” which had a field-leading 10 nominations.

Rami Malek, accepting his first Oscar for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, began by breathlessly and sweetly thanking his mother and his late father. Malek, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Egypt, is a first-generation American, and he was particularly proud of being part of a movie about “a gay man, an immigrant who lived his life unapologetically himself.”

BEST PICTURE
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book” *WINNER
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, “Vice”
Marina de Tavira, “Roma”
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” *WINNER
Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” *WINNER
Adam Driver, “BlackKKlansman”
Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”
Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me”
Sam Rockwell, “Vice”

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Capernaum”
“Cold War”
“Never Look Away”
“Roma” *WINNER
“Shoplifters”

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“A Night at the Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.” *WINNER

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Free Solo” *WINNER
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“RBG”

ORIGINAL SONG
“All The Stars” – “Black Panther”
“I’ll Fight” – “RBG”
“Shallow” – “A Star Is Born *WINNER
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” – “Mary Poppins Returns”
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” – “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Mirai”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” *WINNER

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale, “Vice”
Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” *WINNER
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” *WINNER
Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

DIRECTOR
Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War”
Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”
Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” *WINNER
Adam McKay, “Vice”

PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Black Panther” *WINNER
“The Favourite”
“First Man”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Roma”

ORIGINAL SCORE
“Black Panther” *WINNER
“BlacKkKlansman”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Mary Poppins Returns”