Spike Lee, whose film BlacKkKlansman was Oscar-nominated for best picture, said “the ref made a bad call” when Green Book won the top prize at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
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 show, according to various media accounts, then returned to his seat, where he turned his back on the stage during the acceptance speeches.
The film, which based on a true story of the unlikely 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.
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 –
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