Oscar 2019: 'Green Book' Best Picture win sparks angry reactions on social media

Peter Farrelly's "Green Book" may have ended up with the Best Picture trophy at the 91st Academy Awards but it's win has not gone down well with many on social media calling it out for its "sanitised look" at racial problems in America.

The film, about the story of an unlikely friendship between a Black musician and his white driver, upstaged front-runners Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma", "Black Panther", "The Favourite" and "BlacKkKlansman" to bag Best Picture Oscar.

Many on Twitter equated the film's surprise win with "Crash", Paul Haggis' 2005 film that had controversially bagged the coveted honour despite the presence of films like "Brokeback Mountain" and "Munich" in the category.

"'Crash' watching 'Green Book' take its place as the worst Oscar winner," wrote a person on Twitter.

Another person wrote, "'The Green Book' was 'Crash II: Crash In The Past'."
He was later seen engaged in an "intense conversation with Jordan Peele, who was behind him."
"Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson tweeted, "This year reinforces my long-held belief that the only thing interesting about the Oscars is their astonishing consistency in getting s**t so horribly wrong."