The most savage things critics have said about 2019 Best Picture winner ‘Green Book’

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Newly-named Best Picture winner Green Book may have won over the Academy, but it sure didn’t win over all critics. 

Even as Green Book‘s Oscars campaign picked up steam, it’s earned some reviews ranging from unfavorable to flat-out brutal, with much of the criticism stemming from accusations that the film was tone-deaf to its subject matter

Here’s a rundown of what some critics had to say — and in some cases, are still saying — about the highly contentious Green Book.

Matt Goldberg, Collider:

Whiteness is violence and films like Green Book act like a band-aid on the deep, infected and festering wound that is whiteness and anti-Blackness. Nothing more.

— Lara Witt (@Femmefeministe) February 25, 2019 Read more…

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Uh oh, the same actors who announced ‘La La Land’ for Best Picture are coming back

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The very same actors who announced the wrong Best Picture at last year’s Oscars have been invited back for another year.

But guys, it wasn’t really their fault, remember? 

When Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as Best Picture instead of Moonlight at last year’s Academy Awards, everyone watching spontaneously combusted — including La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, who had to hand over the gold onstage.

Now, TMZ reports, Dunaway and Beatty are being given a chance to get the announcement for Best Picture right. They’ve been invited back to present the same award category at this year’s Oscars on March 4. Read more…

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Three adorable sisters recreate 2018 Oscars Best Picture nominees

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Oscar season is upon us once again, which means it’s time to check in with everyone’s favorite little Best Picture cosplayers: The Storino sisters.

Upholding a fun tradition she started in 2011, Maggie Storino prepared for the 90th Academy Awards by dressing up her young daughters — Sophia, age 7; Sadie, age 5; and Sloane, age 2 — like stars from 2018’s nine most iconic films.

For this year’s Don’t Call Me Oscar challenge, the Storino girls channeled Lady Bird‘s Saoirse Ronan, Get Out‘s Daniel Kaluuya, and even hopped in a pool to recreate Guillermo del Toro’s award-winning The Shape of Water. Read more…

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‘Three Billboards’ wins Globes’ Best Picture but not everyone’s happy about it

Taking out one of the two top gongs for the Golden Globes, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has won this year’s Best Picture: Drama.
Voted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the film trumped Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, The Post, …

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