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'Green Book' wins best picture at the 91st Academy Awards

LOS ANGELES - Putting the final exclamation point on an unusually tumultuous and unpredictable Oscar season, "Green Book" - the period road movie about a black virtuoso pianist and his white chauffeur and bodyguard from director Peter Farrelly - claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 91st Academy Awards, beating out a diverse field of rivals ranging from the intimate, poetic "Roma" to the superhero smash "Black Panther" to the crowd-pleasing Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Heading into the night, the best picture race seemed unusually wide open, with no clear and sustained front-runner, and yet the win for "Green Book" was not entirely unexpected. In January, the film picked up the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, an important bellwether, and in many ways, the feel-good movie had the trappings of an old-fashioned Oscar contender.

But on the way to its final victory, "Green Book" also had to overcome significant hurdles, including a sluggish start at the box office, dissent from some

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