Tag: Green Book
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Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Green Book
Actor takes Academy Award for role as pianist Don Shirley in deep south road movie, despite controversy surrounding the film-makersMahershala Ali has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards.This is Ali’s second Oscar win, after he took the award in the…
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Mahershala Ali Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for ‘Green Book’
Mahershala Ali has won the 2019 Academy Award for his supporting performance in Best Picture contender “Green Book.” Ali beat a competitive field of contenders that included Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”), Sam Elliott (“A Star Is Born”), Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”), and Sam Rockwell (“Vice”).Read More: 2019 Oscar Predictions: 91st Academy AwardsThis…
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Mahershala Ali Wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar For ‘Green Book’ [Oscars 2019]
Back when he was a regular on such “classic” TV series as “The 4400” and “Crossing Jordan,” Mahershala Ali probably didn’t have realistic Oscar aspirations. Fast forward 15-ish years and not only is Ali one of the most respected actors on the planet, but he also has 2 Oscar trophies on his mantle, thanks to…
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Oscar Shorts Hit Records as Specialty Box Office Waits for Academy Award Winners
While possible winners “Roma,” “Vice,” “Free Solo,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Green Book” could get a box-office boost from Sunday’s Oscar finale, the specialized world’s primary reliance on awards contenders is drawing to a close. That leaves room for other players to take center stage. Specialized mainstay Roadside Attractions is releasing “Run the…
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Ethan Hawke Wins Best Actor at the Spirit Awards, and the Oscar Should’ve Been Next
Ethan Hawke has won the Indie Spirit Award for Best Male Lead thanks to his performance in Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed.” The victory is the latest in a long line of award wins Hawke received this season, including Best Actor accolades from major critic groups such as the New York Film Critics Circle and the…
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Read Variety’s 1957 Review of ‘Green Book’ Pianist Don Shirley
“Green Book” viewers who are not totally versed in the ways of ’50s and ’60s jazz may come away from the heavily Oscar-nominated movie wondering just how well known and respected the film’s central musical figure, Don Shirley (played by Mahershala Ali), really was in his heyday. The answer: revered enough to have picked up…
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Why Green Book should win the best picture Oscar
Lost amid the film’s alarming fall from grace is the fact that, at its core, it offers a subtle and challenging social messageThe Favourite, Black Panther, Roma and more: read the rest of our best picture Oscar hustings‘Should” as in “deserves to”? Or “should” as in “has the chance to”? Semantics aside, none of this…
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‘Eighth Grade’ & ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’ Surprise At 2019 WGA Awards
In simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles, the Writers Guild of America handed out the winners for the 2019 WGA Awards. Many of the winners were expected but in the film categories, the top winners were major surprises.Bo Burnham’s script for “Eighth Grade,” which did not earn an Oscar nomination, beat major competition…
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Writers Guild Makes It Official: This Is the Most Wide-Open Oscars Race Ever
For the record, we’re in uncharted territory this Oscar season.While we still have the costume designers’ ceremony to get through on Tuesday, the Writers Guild Awards put a bow on the major guild kudos circuit Sunday night. The results have yielded what is, unequivocally, the most wide-open Oscar field in history.The major guild and industry…
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WGA Awards Bear Little Relevance to Oscars, Which Will Have Fewer Dick Jokes
The Writers Guild Awards, East and West, always deliver strong pro-union and leftist political sentiments, not to mention a raft of colorful F bombs and dick jokes. Give writers a place to sound off, and likely they will, especially if there’s alcohol flowing. This show, as WGA West’s killer host Chelsea Peretti noted, “has all…