‘Green Book’ wins best picture at Oscars

LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 (AP): The segregation-era road-trip drama "Green Book" was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards.

In a year when Hollywood could have made history by bestowing its top award on Netflix ("Roma") or Marvel ("Black Panther") for the first time, the motion picture academy instead threw its fullest support Sunday behind a traditional interracial buddy tale that proved as popular as it was divisive.

But Peter Farrelly's "Green Book" weathered criticism that it was retrograde and inauthentic to triumph over more acclaimed films and bigger box-office successes.

The Oscars otherwise spread awards around for Ryan Coogler's superhero sensation "Black Panther," Alfonso Cuaron's black-and-white personal epic "Roma" and the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody."