Toronto International Film Festival champion: "GREEN BOOK" gets a Best Picture race passport

Funny that a movie no one was really talking about took home the top prize of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2018 - Peter Farrely's Green Book.

While the movie draws some initial comparisons to Driving Miss Daisy, it seems it goes a bit deeper. The story of a friendship between a white chauffeur and a black jazz music star, according to reviews the movie pays respect to both leads' social backgrounds without sacrifing its feel-good vibe. Yeah! A feel-good movie won TIFF (maybe the very first since Slumdog Millionaire). And guess what? I added Green Book in my Oscar nominees predictions charts at the GoldDerby last Friday! Lucky me!

And now, Green Book enters the race for the Academy Award for Best Picture: since 2008,only 1 of the TIFF winners (2011's Where Do We Go Now?) was not Best Picture nominated, with Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010) and 12 Years a Slave (2012) taking home the Oscar for Best Picture at the end of the Oscar race.

So, I can assume Green Book will be contending for Academy Awards in a big couple of categories: Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Farrelly, maybe but he has a awful resumè), Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor (Mortensen and Ali, depending on the category each one will be campaigned for - category fraud, because they're both clear leads), Best Adapted Screenplay and maybe Best Editing (since the AMPAS always nominates its favorites in this category).

So, just have a look at the big TIFF winners:

PEOPLE'S CHOICE - Green Book (Peter Farrely, US)

RUNNERS UP: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, US), and Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)

PEOPLE'S CHOICE MIDNIGHT MADNESS - The Man Who Feels No Pain (Vasan Bala, India)

RUNNERS UP: Halloween (David Gordon Green, US), and Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson, US)

PEOPLE'S CHOICE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Free Solo (E Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin)

RUNNERS UP: This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue) and The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester)

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