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Spike Lee ‘furious’ when ‘Green Book’ won best picture Oscar, attempted to storm out of theater
Fox News ^ | 2/24/2019

Posted on 02/24/2019 9:26:57 PM PST by Borges

Spike Lee, the famed director whose “BlacKkKlansman,” was up for a best picture award at the Oscars on Sunday night, reportedly attempted to storm out of the Dolby Theatre after it was announced that “Green Book” won the award.

He walked toward the back of the auditorium and, according to a reporter for Deadline, got into what appeared to be an intense conversation with the writer Jordan Peele. The report said that he turned his back to the stage during the speech.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blackkk; blackkklansman; blackprivilege; brooklyn; deadline; gentrification; greenbook; jordanpeele; newyork; newyorkcity; oscar; oscars; racist; spikelee
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I first saw him in ‘The 4400’; he had a very striking film presence, but I don’t go to movies and didn’t know anything further about him. ‘The Green Book’ sounds interesting.


21 posted on 02/24/2019 9:45:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Borges

lol

Sounds like a typical day for little man Spike Lee.


22 posted on 02/24/2019 9:57:42 PM PST by Conserv
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To: laweeks

AMEN!


23 posted on 02/24/2019 9:59:26 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Borges
Yo Spike,

You racist, self-centered one man pity party

Always talkin' like you just got outta Selma.

You head so big

1-HY344-004-lt

Imma land my helicopter on it.

Golux


24 posted on 02/24/2019 10:01:23 PM PST by golux
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To: Borges
Yo Spike,

You racist, self-centered one man pity party

Always talkin' like you just got outta Selma.

You head so big

1-HY344-004-lt

Imma land my helicopter on it.

Golux


25 posted on 02/24/2019 10:01:25 PM PST by golux
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To: golux
(Oops. Sorry for the double post That WAS an accident.) But yo Imma say it TWO TIMES! TWO TIMES, MOTHA...
26 posted on 02/24/2019 10:04:03 PM PST by golux
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To: Dilbert San Diego; dfwgator

Literal example of an ingrate just after getting an Oscar - apparently one doesn’t get too old to be a whiny spoiled punk while most hard workers in that industry never get one. And in PC news they gave that Caulderon guy three when he earned one at the most. At least we weren’t subjected to lengthy anti-Trump rants.


27 posted on 02/24/2019 10:06:05 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (NRT, New Rome Tacitus, just don't call me late to dinner.)
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To: Borges; Bender2; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; Rummyfan

The real reason he fled is that the fashion police put out a warrant for his arrest.


28 posted on 02/24/2019 10:07:29 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Borges

Calm down, Spike. It’s only the Oscars, not a screwed up McDonald’s order!


29 posted on 02/24/2019 10:09:17 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Borges

Cue the Fake Newser media talking point about “temper tantrums” they regularly apply to Trump border policy.

I know that term would never be used for lil spikey, but I can dream a little once in a while...


30 posted on 02/24/2019 10:16:41 PM PST by spiderpig (Does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: Jamestown1630

i saw both films....the Green Book was ok..nothing spectacular. Black Klansman was a typical Lee film..cliched filled and the same “cheesy” feel to it like all his others. Overrated knucklehead.


31 posted on 02/24/2019 10:19:37 PM PST by basalt
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To: Borges

SL...most overrated movie person EVER! Doesn’t deserve one post on FR.

Just go away!


32 posted on 02/24/2019 10:29:40 PM PST by pacificus
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To: dfwgator

Green Book was the worst kind of awful. But far worse was Skin, which won the best live action short.. I saw all FIVE of the shorts at a special screening at a Bow-Tie Cinema in Montclair NJ. SKIN is just unbelievably over th top as an “ironic” object lesson about bigotry and revenge, but that’s exactly why it won. By far the best was “Detainment”-—amazing on all levels —about the real life brutal killing of a small boy in Liverpool by 2 10 year olds. It was huge news in the 90s, and the film is unforgettable.


33 posted on 02/24/2019 10:30:28 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Borges

Spike Lees daddy left his mom for a white woman

He literally has never recovered

Oscars tonight was black black black black and more black

Silly

I detest almost all of them

One of my best pals is a producer..

I called him earlier tonight in Los Feliz teasing him if he was going...

He’s like only if I have a picture or documentary under consideration and even then it’s a pain

Prima donnas all....he has to watch his mouth out there or he’ll kill his distribution capabilities much less financing

The best part tonight was Cooper and Gaga....it was good honestly

And the menustration girls....for their documentary....I laughed so hard they were so earnest ...getting rural Indian girls tampons is a good thing admittedly


34 posted on 02/24/2019 10:38:37 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Borges

Spike Lee is pissed.

Another successful Oscars night.

Yay.


35 posted on 02/24/2019 10:46:45 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: wardaddy

If the Academy was really honest, Roma should have won.

But there would have been a riot if one of the “black” movies didn’t win.


36 posted on 02/24/2019 10:52:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Impy
Spike Lee has always been an ass and Green Book might indeed be the better film (something Spike Lee will never admit since it has a white hero), but "BlacKkKlansman" sounds like its FAR more entertaining.

I did see Black Panther. It was decent, but fairly average as far as Marvel superhero movies go. It didn't deserve a "Best Picture" nomination. The fact it got one is far more insulting, IMO.

37 posted on 02/24/2019 11:37:16 PM PST by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: Huntress

He expected to get best director....He also thought his movie was in the running....

Green Book might be entertaining, but no way...no way best.

First Man and Bohemia’s Rhapsody..by far the best...


38 posted on 02/25/2019 12:13:21 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Kickass Conservative

Why?


39 posted on 02/25/2019 12:15:05 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Why what?

My Post #13 was a statement, not a question.


40 posted on 02/25/2019 12:19:10 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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