"It wasn't my cup of tea," and other hilarious reactions to Green Book's Best Picture win
With the queasy inevitability of a gagging drunk uncovering their mouth to spew vomit onto a sidewalk, Green Book won the Oscar for Best Picture at last night’s Academy Awards. This, it turns out, was not a popular choice.
Our review called it “a kind of comforting liberal fantasy, a #NotAllRacists trifle that suggests that our deep, festering divisions can be sutured through some quality time on the open road, resolving differences over a bucket of KFC.” Others, like the Los Angeles Times, are calling it the worst movie to win Best Picture since Crash took the same award in 2006. It’s also, notably, a movie made by an Islamophobe and a dick-flashing director.
It’s a movie so dumb it seems almost designed to be parodied, which it has been, specifically, by Desus & Mero and, more generally, by Seth Meyers.
All of this might help explain the reaction to Green Book’s win last night—a reaction probably best summed up with director Spike Lee’s perfectly timed statement that it “wasn’t my cup of tea.”
The interviewers asking Lee if he was “offended” by the award might’ve picked up on the vibe of a room where many in attendance were visibly pissed off during the announcement. One of them was Jordan Peele, who won an Oscar last year for Get Out. Per reports, Peele chose not to clap when Green Book’s win was announced.