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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.
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.
Chicago critic Roger Ebert (right) with director Russ Meyer. Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly ...
Green Book received generally positive reviews from critics, who especially praised Ali and Mortensen's performances and chemistry. [ a ] However, some also criticised the film's portrayal of race, variously calling it clichèd, naive and tone deaf, [ 11 ] [ 13 ] a "racial reconciliation fantasy", [ 14 ] and as perpetuating a white savior ...
The production company boarded the movie as an investor alongside Participant Media, Dreamworks Pictures and Amblin Partners (in which Alibaba is a minority owner) in a summer 2018 move.
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]
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Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.