The "Green Book" Denies The Best Oscar To Netflix On A Night Of Music And Diversity

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The movie "Green Book" was won by the movie "Roma" and won Sunday's Best Picture Oscar, depriving Netflix of its right to boast, becoming the first service from streaming to beat Hollywood to his own match.

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron was chosen best director of "Roma", his sentimental journey in black and white that goes back to his childhood. The film also won two other Oscars, including that of the best foreign language.

Briton Olivia Colman won her first Oscar for her role as anxious Queen Anne in Fox Searchlight's "The Favorite" comedy, defeating the so-called leader Glenn Close, who starred in "The Wife. " . "

" It's really stressful! It's hilarious, "said Colman, visibly shocked. "Glenn Close – you've been my idol for so long, and that's not what I wanted it to be," she told her teammate, sitting in the audience.

Rami Malek was rewarded for his role as Freddie Mercury in the musical 21st Century Fox "Bohemian Rhapsody". The film was the biggest winner, with four Oscars, and also marked the show as soon as the band became the first rock band to open an Oscar show.

"I may not have been the obvious choice, but I guess it worked," said Malek, who had been favored to win the award.

OSCARS NOT SO WHITE

It was also a great evening for diversity, with the Oscars rewarding black actors Mahershala Ali and Regina King, while Spike Lee won the script adapted for his film "BlacKkKLansman" Ku Klux Klan. was born in the United States of Egyptian parents.

"Black Panther", with a predominantly black cast, won three Oscars, including costume design, for his vision of a fictitious and glorious African kingdom of Wakanda.

"Green Book", a Universal Pictures film about an unlikely friendship between a black pianist and his white chauffeur during a tour of the southern United States in the 1960s, also rewarded for his original script and his second role for Ali.

The victories were won despite a host of negative publicity both around the "Green Book" and the "Bohemian Rhapsody" in recent months.

The family of the late pianist, Don Shirley, said that his portrait in "Green Book" contained inaccuracies and that in January, director Peter Farrelly denounced badual irregularities. Farrelly is excused for his conduct.

"I think we have given Mrs. Shirley a great honor," scriptwriter Nick Vallelonga told reporters on Sunday.

Bryan Singer, director of "Bohemian Rhapsody," was charged in January with badual misconduct involving underage men in the 1990s.

Singer issued a statement denying the charges.

The Academy Awards took place without a guest for the first time since 1989. Instead, she was filled with outstanding musical performances by Queen, Bette Midler and Jennifer Hudson. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed an intimate duet of "Shallow" from "A Star is Born," which allowed Gaga to obtain her first Oscar.

"I have worked hard for a long time and it is not a question of winning, but of not giving up," said Gaga in tears. "It's not about how many times you're rejected. … it's about how often you're brave and you keep going. "

(This version of the story corrects a typographical error in" Black Panther "in the 9th paragraph)