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Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book.” UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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By Kam Williams
“Green Book” upset “Roma” to
take home the Academy Award for
Best Picture on an historic night
featuring a record number of wins
for black-themed films. “Green
Book” also won in the Supporting
Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Original
Screenplay categories.
Meanwhile, Spike Lee landed the
Oscar for Adapted Screenplay for
“BlacKkKlansman,” and Regina King
garnered the Supporting Actress
award for inspired performance in
“If Beale Street Could Talk.” And
Peter Ramsey won for co-directing
the Best Animated Feature, “Spider-
Man: Into The Spider-Verse.”
“Black Panther” prevailed in a
trio of categories: Original Score,
Costume Design, and Production
Design. In the process, Ruth E.
Carter made history as the first
African-American woman to win
for Costume Design, and Hannah
Beachler did so, too, as the first
African American to win for Production
Design.
The festivities flowed smoothly
despite the absence of an emcee, and
the show was about an hour shorter
than usual. The emphasis on diversity
was pretty obvious, with white
presenters being outnumbered by
black, Latino, and Asians.
After jumping into the arms of
Samuel L. Jackson on his way to
the podium, a euphoric Spike Lee
delivered a politically-tinged acceptance
speech in which he appealed
to folks to vote in the 2020 election.
Although Spike never referred to
Trump by name, the president subsequently
saw fit to tweet about the
Oscar-winner’s supposedly “racist
hit” against him.
As far as my Oscar picks, I only
got half right, my worst showing
ever.Here the complete list of 2019
Academy Award winners:
Best Picture: “Green Book”
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron
(“Roma”)
Best Actress: Olivia Colman (“The
Favourite”)
Best Actor: Rami Malek (“Bohemian
Rhapsody”)
Best Supporting Actress: Regina
King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”)
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala
Ali (“Green Book”)
Best Foreign Film: “Roma”
Best Animated Feature Film: “Spider
Man: Into The Spider-Verse”
Best Original Screenplay: “Green
Book”
Best Adapted Screenplay: “BlacKkKlansman”
Best Original Score: “Black Panther”
Best Original Song: “Shallow” (“A
Star Is Born”)
Best Documentary Feature: “Free
Solo”
Best Documentary Short: “Period.
End Of Sentence”
Best Live Action Short: “Skin”
Best Animated Short: “Bao”
Best Cinematography: “Roma”
Best Production Design: “Black
Panther”
Best Costume Design: “Black
Panther”
Best Hair And Makeup: “Vice”
Best Sound Editing: “Bohemian
Rhapsody”
Best Sound Mixing: “Bohemian
Rhapsody”
Best Visual Effects: “First Man”
Best Editing: “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Haitian-American author Edwidge
Danticat’s new book “My Mommy
Medicine” celebrates motherhood
and how love conquers illness.
By Alexandra Simon
What’s a world without a mother’s
love?
Haitian-American author and writer
Edwidge Danticat is releasing a new
children’s book celebrating motherhood,
and specifically how a mother
cares for her child when he or she is ill.
The picture book, “My Mommy
Medicine,” expressively illustrates the
many ways a mother helps her young
daughter feel better when she’s home
sick. Together, the pair discover various
comfort methods in playing games,
natural and medicinal remedies, laughter,
self-care, storytime, imagination,
and more.
The term “Mommy Medicine” is a
phrase Danticat and her family often
use referring to the unrivaled loving
and caregiving that a parental or guardian
figure can provide a younger relative.
She describes it as the desire to
offer the best care and comfort possible
to someone you love.
As a mother of two daughters, Danticat
says she was inspired to write the
book based on the endless days she
spent caring for them. And before children
of her own — the care she flooded
her nieces and nephews with.
Danticat published her first book,
“Breath, Eyes, Memory” in 1994 and
to date has written more than a dozen
novels. Of her bibliography, she’s written
two previous picture books geared
towards children — “Eight Days: A Story
of Haiti’ and “Mama’s Nightingale.”
The book will be available for purchase
on Feb. 26.
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