Best picture award a shock at Oscars
A visibly angry Spike Lee waved his hands in disgust and appeared to try to walk out of the Dolby Theatre after Julia Roberts announced Green Book had won this year’s Oscar for best film.
Lee, whose film BlackKkKlansman was also nominated, had won an Oscar earlier in the evening for best adapted screenplay.
His Oscar in hand, he walked alone toward the theatre exit while the Green Book producers were accepting their award.
He appeared to be stopped by staffers there, then made his way back to his seat after the speeches were over and the rest of the crowd stood up to leave.
Jordan Peele, who was sitting behind Lee, also declined to applaud the winner, as did others in the room.
Hailed as a tribute to racial tolerance by its makers and stars, Green Book was also widely criticised by many as an outdated, sentamentalised movie full of racial stereotypes.
Olivia Colman appeared to still be in shock as she carried her best actress Oscar backstage, and a previous winner had just the cure for her.
‘‘White wine! This woman needs a white wine,’’ said Frances McDormand, who won the Oscar last year for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and who presented Sunday’s to Colman,just
‘‘Can someone get her a white wine,’’ chimed in Sam Rockwell, who won the best actor award last year for the same film and best supporting actor this year for ‘‘Vice.’’
‘‘I think my nose is running,’’ is all Colman said.
Alfonso Cuaron won the Academy Award for best director.
It’s the second time Cuaron has won an Oscar as best director. He previously won in 2014 for Gravity. His film Roma is based on his childhood in Mexico and the woman who raised him.
Cuaron has also won an Oscar for best foreign language film for Mexico, its first.
The writer-director dedicated his speech to domestic workers, noting that tens of millions of them work around the world without any rights.
Rami Malek rocked the show with a best actor Oscar win for his portrayal of Queen’s Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
The actor thanked his mother, who was in the audience, and also paid tribute to his late father, who he said didn’t get to see him become a film star.
History has been made by women at the awards.
With the win of Jamie Ray Newman and Guy Nattiv for live action short film, 13 women captured Oscars yesterday.
The academy says the previous record was set in 2007 and matched in 2015.
Lady Gaga’s win with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt put the number at 14.
History-makers were among the winners. Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beachler became the first AfricanAmericans to win in their respective categories. Carter was awarded for costume design, and Beachler for production design.
Shallow from A Star Is Born won the Academy Award for best original song.
Shallow was written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper perform it in the film. The song won two Grammy Awards earlier this month.
Gaga effusively thanked the academy and her cowinners, as well as her sister and Cooper.
She says it was not about winning, but it was about not giving up and all the times people have to get up after they are knocked down.
The best original score winner was Black Panther composer Ludwig Goransson –AP United States