Oscars 2019: 9 Ups & 8 Downs

1. Green Book Is The Worst Best Picture Winner Since Crash

Despite many crossing their fingers that Roma would win the Best Picture Oscar - scooping Netflix its first Best Picture win in the process - those hopes were scuppered when Julia Roberts announced the winner to be Green Book.

There's something quite surreal about seeing the Academy give a feel-good movie about racism written and directed by white men the biggest honour in film merely two years after they gave it to Moonlight.

From the rather surface-deep acceptance speech - talking in platitudes while ignoring the systemic issues that define racism - to the discomforting visual of so many white people appearing on stage to champion a film about the black experience in America, Green Book couldn't be a more tone-deaf winner.

This makes Green Book by far the most controversial - and we'd argue, the worst - winner since Crash back in 2006, and one of the weakest winners of the modern era.

Needless to say, it'll be a mark of embarrassment for the Academy in the years to come, just like overly simplistic Best Picture-winning race dramas Driving Miss Daisy and Crash.

Above all else, it's proof that the nebulous preferential ballot system needs to be reworked, because Green Book likely won Best Picture through sheer virtue of being the least "offensive" and most accessible of the eight nominees. Oof.

And now that we're done complaining, here's everything the Academy actually got right...