Then go watch a Hallmark Channel movie. If we’re going to say Best Picture is a pinnacle of any given year, it would help if the movie didn’t feel like a recycled TV movie with better actors.

I forgot that ‘Moonlight’ won last year. The contrast between these two is ... noticeable.

The Favourite is a very Art film and fucking amazing. I’m so glad Olivia Colman won.  Her role is unflinching and brave

Don't forget fucking Farrelly going out of his way to say, over and over again, that Viggo was the most important person on the stage. Pretty much sums up everything you need to know about the movie. 

“Spotlight” is a low-key drama that avoids histrionics (aside from one moment where Mark Ruffalo shouts). Hollywood movies about “big serious issues” tend to be melodramatic and overly reductive.

Birdman, at least, was an interesting mess. 

I haven’t seen Green Book. Don’t plan on it because the last thing I want to watch is a racist white person getting “redeemed.”

“It’s a spicy pizza-pie of a movie! Fughethaboutit, bring your paisanos—you gonna love That’s Amore!” - Staten Island Advance’s review of the film

The Artist is for me the worst winner in recent memory 

To be honest, I just didn’t think it was all that good of a movie. It was entirely predicable, filled with scenes that were basically just blah and boringly pedestrian. Putting aside the politics of the situation... it just wasn’t a very good movie. But that was just my opinion, obviously others had different takes.

We can all agree that Bohemian Rhapsody was a dumpster fire dressed as a high-class prostitute though.

At its worst, I felt Birdman was forgettable. Crash and Green Book are two pretentious white savior movies which make them worse. 

Anything except Bohemian Rhapsody should have won over green book... and I say that as someone who doesn’t think bio pics of famous people should really be eligible for best picture, but at least Vice required some level of acting choice on parsing how Cheney really felt.

The stupid, controversial white savior movie that also isn’t that great of a movie, tbh. I mean it really is reverse Driving Miss Daisy. I did enjoy Spike’s crack to someone in the press that every time someone is driving someone he loses - a reference to his snub in 1989 for Do the Right Thing.

Or people with good taste.

Yeah I don't believe he's upset by his loss especially considering his seemingly very sincere surprise to win anything at all. Just that a stupid and controversial white savior movie beat everything else.

I don’t know that Spike Lee was upset that he didn’t win so much as upset that Green Book won. Like if he had lost, but Roma had won, I don’t know his reaction would have been the same. He wasn’t visibly upset when Cuaron beat him for Director.

I have to think this film benefited from some vote splitting. The other films were all pretty much evenly well regarded (except maybe Bohemian Rhapsody). None of the nominees was way ahead of the pack, and a clear winner, so all the votes got distributed and Green Book squeaked by.

The thread is pretty funny. 

At least Roma got best foreign film. I still think Favourite or BlackkKlansman (a film that handled racism MUCH, MUCH better) should have won. But I did cheer when Lee got best adapted screenplay, and him wrapped around Samuel L. Jackson made my night.