#Oscars2019 play it safe with Green Book - but don't look to the Academy for enlightened thinking
- Written by Stuart Richards, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Green Book, the film that surprised many by winning Best Picture.Patti Perrett/Universal Studios
Every year it is the same story: the Academy comes so close to catching up with the rest of the film world, only to award the Oscar for Best Picture to the most middling of the bunch.
Many cinephiles the world over...