“It’s a real breakthrough that any film about race gets to win.”
“We’re just glad to be here, glad we won,” said the BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott. Other writers from the film declined to address Lee’s reaction to the choice of best picture. Lee won an Oscar on Sunday for best adapted screenplay as a co-writer for BlacKkKlansman.
The director, a fan of the New York Knicks basketball team, said when he heard Green Book announced as the year’s best picture winner: “I thought I was courtside at the Garden, and the ref made a bad call.” Every time someone is driving somebody, I lose,” Lee told reporters in response to a question about his reaction to for Green Book’s win. In the press room backstage, Lee recalled that his film Do the Right Thing had failed to earn a best picture nomination for the Oscars in 1989, the year that Driving Miss Daisy – about a black chauffeur for a white elderly southern woman – won the award.
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The film, which based on a true story of the friendship between a black pianist and his white driver touring the racially segregated deep south during the 1960s, also won for best original screenplay and supporting actor, Mahershala Ali. The director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre after the race relations drama was announced the winner at the end of the Oscars ceremony, according to various media accounts, then returned to his seat, where he turned his back on the stage during the acceptance speeches.
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