Oscars so divisive

Olivia Colman's Queen Anne might lose out on the Best Actress award to Glenn Close's touching portrait of a woman disregarded by her pompous Nobel-winning husband in The Wife

It’s only befitting that the run-up to this year’s Oscars ceremony is a grim reminder of where America stands in the Trump era: Utterly polarised. It’s boggling everyone’s mind on Twitter, the pre-eminent platform to vent one’s rage these days, that two astonishingly bad movies are up for the most popular awards. Green Book, a movie about a black piano virtuoso (Mahershala Ali) who was able to traverse the Deep South in the 1960s due to his Italian-American chauffeur-slash-bodyguard (Viggo Mortensen) is a schmaltz-fest. Despite it being a true story, director Peter Farrelly took extreme liberties to buttress the movie's