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Green Book is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.The film is set in 1962 and follows Italian–American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), who is hired as a chauffeur by African American pianist Don Shirley for a tour of concert venues in the Deep South.
His performances in Eastern Promises (2007), Captain Fantastic (2016) and Green Book (2018) earned him nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe [a] and SAG Award for Best Actor. The first [b] and last [c] of these, as well as The Road (2009), also earned him nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor.
The choice of Peter Farrelly's period drama "Green Book" as this year's Best Picture in the eight-film Oscars race has provoked considerable controversy.
Alibaba Pictures, the heavily loss-making film financing and production arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is busily talking up its involvement in best picture winner “Green Book.” The ...
He also co-wrote the book Shut Up and Eat! (2005). His life in the early 1960s, when he was the driver and bodyguard for the black classical pianist Don Shirley , was dramatized in the 2018 film Green Book , in which he was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen . [ 1 ]
One of the producers behind the Oscar-winning but divisive “Green Book” defended the film from criticism over how they told the story, arguing that it was actually aimed towards an older white ...
Nicholas Anthony Vallelonga (born September 13, 1959) [1] is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing and producing the film Green Book, for which he received two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. [2]