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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.
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.
Best Film Green Book: Nominated [8] [9] Best Actor Viggo Mortensen Nominated Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali Won American Cinema Editors: February 1, 2019: Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical: Patrick J. Don Vito Nominated [10] American Film Institute: January 4, 2019: Top 10 Films of the Year Green Book: Won [11] Austin Film ...
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 ...
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]
The documentary film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom by Yoruba Richen was scheduled to first air on February 25, 2019, on the Smithsonian Channel in the US. [68] [69] [70] The 2019 virtual reality documentary Traveling While Black places the viewer directly inside a portrait of African American travelers making use of the Green Book. [71]
Year Winner Director(s) 1940: The Grapes of Wrath ‡: John Ford: 1941: Citizen Kane ‡: Orson Welles: 1942: In Which We Serve ‡: Noël Coward and David Lean: 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident ‡: William A. Wellman
Traveling While Black is a Canadian-American coproduced virtual reality documentary film project, directed by Roger Ross Williams and released in 2019. [1] An examination of racism in the United States, the film is an immersive experience which places the viewer inside the context of African-American travellers seeking safety and security with the help of the Negro Motorist Green Book; [1 ...