'Green Book' bags Oscar for best picture

AWARDS-OSCARS/ Director Peter Farrelly holds up the Oscar as he speaks on stage after "Green Book" won the Best Picture award | Reuters

Green Book bagged the Oscar for the Best Film, at the 91st Academy Awards on Monday. The film starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, beat the likes of Roma, The Favourite, Black Panther, BlackkKlansman, A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Directed by Peter Farelly, the film is based on real-life events and is named after a book originally designed to help African American travellers avoid dangerous areas in the pre-civil rights US.

Green Book had also won the best film (musical or comedy) at the Golden Globes.

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