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    Drama Spike Lee ‘furious’ when ‘Green Book’ won best picture Oscar, appears to try and storm out of theater: report

    By Louis Casiano | Fox News




    LOS ANGELES - Spike Lee, the famed director whose “BlacKkKlansman,” was up for the best picture award at the Oscars on Sunday night, appeared to try to storm out of the Dolby Theatre after it was announced that “Green Book" won the award.

    Lee, a lifelong New York Knicks basketball fan, compared the "Green Book" win to a referee making "the wrong call."

    In a stunning move shortly after "Green Book" was announced the winner, the director walked toward the back of the auditorium, according to a reporter for Deadline. He eventually got back to his seat and got into what appeared to be an intense conversation with the writer Jordan Peele. The report said that Lee turned his back to the stage during the speech.

    Peele, who was sitting behind Lee, also declined to applaud the winner, as did others in the room.

    “I’m snakebitten," Lee said while backstage. "I mean, every time somebody is driving somebody, I lose. But, they changed the seating arrangement. But, in ’89 I didn’t get nominated, so this one we did."

    Lee's "Do the Right Thing" lost to "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1990. He told New York Magazine years later that "when Driving Miss Motherf—-ing Daisy won Best Picture, that hurt. [But] no one’s talking about "Driving Miss Daisy" now."

    Lee said he had six glasses of champagne and attempted to make light of his reaction.

    "Wait a minute, what reaction did you see? What did I do? No, I thought it was courtside at the Garden and the ref made a bad call. Courtside! The world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden. Knicks coming back next year."

    “Green Book” stars Mahershala Ali as an African-American concert pianist in the 1960s and Viggo Mortensen as his driver. It won three Oscars on Sunday, including best supporting actor for Ali and best original screenplay.

    Hailed as a tribute to racial tolerance by its makers and stars, “Green Book” was also widely criticized by many as an outdated, sentimentalized movie full of racial stereotypes.

    Lee won earlier for best-adapted screenplay for his white supremacist drama "BlacKkKlansman." The crowd rose in a standing ovation, Lee leapt into the arms of presenter Samuel L. Jackson and even the backstage press room burst into applause.

    Lee, whose film including footage of President Donald Trump following the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, urged mobilization for the upcoming election.

    "Let's be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love and hate," said Lee, who was given an honorary Oscar in 2015. "Let's do the right thing! You knew I had to get that in there."

    Fox News' Julius Young and the Associated Press contributed.

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    What a tosspot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    What a tosspot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Yeah, he sure sounds like one

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    Sit down Spike Lee, you tosspot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Sit down Spike Lee, you tosspot.

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    Sounds like a KKK Konvention up in here

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    Its clearly racism






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    Black Panther, Black Klansman...and black director pulls a Kanye because Green Book won.

    Sounds like a colorful evening

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    I guess Rami Malek fell off the stage after winning the best actor award. They cut it from the show.

    Man he was up against some good competition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Sounds like a KKK Konvention up in here

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    I saw this movie and almost forgot I had. It's just not memorable. Really interesting true story, but the movie just didn't do much for me. Sorry Spike, your movie was average and you're a poor sport. Fuck off.

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    Looky those nostrils flair.

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