Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups “Green Book” Best Actress Glenn Close, “The Wife” Best Actor Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book” Best Supporting Actress Judi Dench, “All Is True” Best Supporting Actor Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Best Director Spike Lee...
Green Book Release Date: November 21, 2018 Peter Farrelly directs Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen and Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in a dramatic, but still warmly comic film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line. ...
Viggo Mortensen gains 30 pounds to play a racist chauffeur who comes around in this feel-good flip on the 'Driving Miss Daisy' formula.By Peter Debruge Plus Icon OK, class, who can explain what a Green Book is? For those who don’t know, it was a handbook for black motorists seeking...
There are the bright spots—getting to see what Vicky Krieps can do as a feisty Western lead in The Dead Don’t Hurt, experiencing a triumphant Oscar campaign for Green Book despite the backlash—but also some worrisome signs. Here, Mortensen speaks out against the “appal...
Making his first drama as a period true story wasn't easy for Peter Farrelly, who relied on gifted stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
If you’re keeping a scorecard for Oscars 2019, you no doubt know thatGreen Bookis a heavy hitter this year with nominations for Best Picture, Best Lead Actor for Viggo Mortensen, Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali, Best Original Screenplay, Best in Film Editing—and its official sound...
Their experience on the road opened Vallelonga’s eyes to the brutal realities of racism and is chronicled in Peter Farrelly’s Green Book—which was co-written by Vallelonga’s son Nick Vallelonga, and co-stars Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. As is depicted in the film, Shirley ...
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and Linda Cardellini all walked the red carpet at the TCL Chinese Theatres on Friday night to celebrate the premiere of 'Green Book,' which tells the true story of the friendship that developed between Italian-American tou
However, Mortensen recently came under firefor using the n-word during an event promoting the film. The actor has since apologized with the explanation that he was “attempting to make the point that the extreme, dehumanizing ugliness that this word conjures, the hateful attitude behind it, has...
“The world's full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.” Green Book checks all the boxes of an Oscar bait movie: period setting (1960’s), based on a true story (but maybe not that true), respected/award winning actors (Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali), a name director...