"Green Book" won the best film and Cuarón swept "Roma"

Peter Farrelly's "Green Paper: A Friendship Without Borders" turned a deaf ear to betting and criticism, and won the Best Film Award in the 91st. Oscar of the Academy of Cinematographic Sciences of Hollywood.

However, "Roma" and its director, Mexican Alfonso Cuarón, did not leave empty-handed: they got the mention of the best foreign film, the best director and the best photography.

Although the favorite film was the band produced by Netflix, "Green Book …" filled the omen: Of the ten previous Oscars, eight had won the films chosen by the Hollywood Producers Union, an badociation that has relied on the story of Farrelly this season.

Without a host after 30 years, the Academy gave more time to winners and presenters.Among those included for the first time were people from outside the sector, such as the sporty Serena Williams and the guitarist Rage Against The Machine, Tom Morello.

At a gala marked by speeches in favor of immigration and integration, Cuarón thanked the Academy for "the recognition of a film that revolves around" 39, an indigenous woman and domestic worker, who like thousands of people in the world does not have rights ". "As an artist, we have to see where the others are not watching," concluded the director who had already won an Oscar in 2013 for "Gravity".

Spike Lee, winner of the Oscar for Best Screenplay, adapted by "Infiltrado del KKKlan", was sentenced: "400 years ago, we were stolen from Africa and brought as slaves to work the land, and they did not see it in the morning or at night," he said. The purple dress, in Prince 's honor, asked to make "moral" decisions in the US presidential election of 2020 and ended with the mention of his most famous film: "Let's do the right thing!"

Rami Malek, at the reception of the best actor award, stressed his condition of son of Egyptian immigrants and remembered his deceased father.

As for the awards, the first surprise of the evening was in the category Best Animation Film: "Spider-Man: a new universe", produced by Sony Pictures, breaks with the hegemony of the last seven years of Disney and Pixar, badociated companies that have dominated the scene until today.

On the contrary, like marked bets, the statuette of best supporting actor has been awarded to Mahershala Ali for his role in "Green Book …", who repeated what was obtained in 2017 by "Luz de luna" and delivered a speech in which he called for "strive to progress".

Comedians Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Maya Rudolph, in the presentation of the statuette to Regina King for her role in "If Beale Street Spoke", They made jokes about the construction of the wall on the border between Mexico and the United States.

The same was done by the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, to present the best foreign film, albeit in a more solemn tone: "There are no borders or walls that stop talent."

In the same way, Actor Diego Luna said: "You can already speak Spanish at the Oscars", and his presentation partner, Spanish chef José Andrés, have asked to show "compbadion for those who seem invisible, such as immigrants, who advance humanity".

The comic moment of the night it was when Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, actors of the iconic "Wayne's World", they presented the trailer for "Bohemian Rapsody …", claiming that the film they performed in 1992 badociated them with the famous film Queen, which made their film famous.

Best Documentary Award went to "Free Solo", by Jimi Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, who thanked National Geographic for recruiting women and blacks, in another reference to "integration".

At the beginning of the gala, Queen, with Bryan May and Roger Taylor, and Adam Lambert on vocals, were charged with a medley which included clbadics like "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions", with a Mercury projection on the background screen and permanent applause.

Mercury's biography won four of the five categories he had to contend with: Mix Sound and Sound Edition, Assembly – thanks to the final sequence of the show in Live Aid – and the best actor, becoming the most awarded film of the night.