{"id":8121,"date":"2019-02-26T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:18:51","slug":"green-book-celebrates-with-3-oscars-including-best-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/green-book-celebrates-with-3-oscars-including-best-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Book Celebrates With 3 Oscars, Including Best Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>News broke yesterday that GREEN BOOK \u2013 following a high-profile run of nominations and wins throughout this year\u2019s film awards-season globally \u2013 has been crowned with the OSCAR for Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles Sunday night. GREEN BOOK also won the OSCARS for Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Best Original Screenplay (Nick Vallelonga &amp; Brian Currie &amp; Peter Farrelly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empire Entertainment is the proud distributor of GREEN BOOK in South Africa and celebrates the well-deserved acclaim bestowed on this independent release with a socially conscious heart (now showing in select cinemas nationwide).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GREEN-BOOK_Mahershala-Ali-and-Viggo-Mortensen.jpg?resize=500%2C321\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GREEN-BOOK_Mahershala-Ali-and-Viggo-Mortensen.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GREEN-BOOK_Mahershala-Ali-and-Viggo-Mortensen.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>GREEN BOOK was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, winning 3. This award-count makes it one of the Top 4 films, which received the most awards at the international film industry\u2019s most prestigious, respected and glamorous annual awards ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GREEN BOOK\u2019s Academy Awards are the crowning glory on the film also winning 3 Golden Globe Awards (including Best Picture \u2013 Comedy\/Musical), the Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Critics\u2019 Choice Awards for \u201cOutstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture\u201d (Mahershala Ali), the Producers Guild Award and various other high-ranking accolades in recent months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahershala Ali\u2019s OSCAR for GREEN BOOK is his 2nd Academy Award-win in just over 2 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the full list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/01\/22\/91st-oscars-nominations-announced\/\">91st Oscar nominees and winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Book - Official Trailer [HD]\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QkZxoko_HC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke yesterday that GREEN BOOK \u2013 following a high-profile run of nominations and wins throughout this year\u2019s film awards-season globally \u2013 has been crowned with the OSCAR for Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles Sunday night. GREEN BOOK also won the OSCARS for Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/green-book-celebrates-with-3-oscars-including-best-picture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Book Celebrates With 3 Oscars, Including Best Picture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}