15 Times The BAFTAs Corrected Huge Oscar Mistakes

Green Book winning Best Picture was by far the most credibility-destroying Oscars blunder since a certain other win that will be discussed shortly. So much so, when Julia Roberts read this out it was likely most were crossing their fingers and hoping that she'd been given the wrong envelope, just like with the infamous Best Picture mix-up two years earlier.

But nope, this was for real. Voters actually picked a flawed and overall unmemorable (if beautifully acted) piece of Oscar-Bait filled with appallingly bad social commentary over Roma, the previous frontrunner - an eye-wateringly beautiful, powerful, personal and heartfelt semi-autobiographical work crafted with real love and care.

Green Book is a decent film, but it'd be hard to imagine anyone being able to convincingly argue that it is superior to Roma. Also, after the last two Best Picture winners - Moonlight, an intelligent, artful and sensitive exploration of black America, and The Shape of Water, a fantasy film about a love story between a human and a mutant fish-man - this felt like an enormous step back for the Oscars. Roma won a well-deserved BAFTA for Best Film that year, and it's still hard to believe it didn't repeat that victory on the other side of the pond. Seriously, what were they thinking?

Still, the Oscars got a bit of credibility back when Parasite won Best Picture the following year. Interestingly, on that occasion, the BAFTAs actually went for the worse choice by giving 1917 the win over Parasite.