With No Host Directing Traffic, 'Green Book' Drives Away With Best Picture
Sunday night's Oscars were the first in a long while to go without a host. It didn't stop the accolades from coming, though, and the kinda sorta part-true Green Book won best picture.
by Linda Holmes
Feb 25, 2019
4 minutes
It turns out the Oscars telecast doesn't need a host.
Sure, the headline coming out of Sunday's Oscars is that and were big winners — won three including best picture, and won four including best actor for Rami Malek. (That despite the fact that both films had decidedly mixed reviews.) That 's credited director, Bryan Singer — fired part of the way through filming — has been accused of a wide range of sexual misconduct seemed to bother the voters not at all. In fact, no one even mentioned Singer. It was as if the film had not been directed by anyone at all, so neatly was he excised from the story of the film's
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