Green Book Best Picture win sparks angry reactions

Los Angeles: Peter Farrelly's Green Book may have ended up with the Best Picture trophy at the 91st Academy Awards but it's win has not gone down well with many on social media calling it out for its "sanitised look" at racial problems in America.

The film, about the story of an unlikely friendship between a Black musician and his white driver, upstaged front-runners Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, Black Panther, The Favourite and BlacKkKlansman to bag Best Picture Oscar.

Many on Twitter equated the film's surprise win with Crash, Paul Haggis' 2005 film that had controversially bagged the coveted honour despite the presence of films like Brokeback Mountain and Munich in the category.

According to Deadline, Lee, whose film BlacKkKlansman was also nominated in the category, attempted to storm out of the Dolby Theatre after it was announced that Green Book has won the award.

Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson tweeted, "This year reinforces my long-held belief that the only thing interesting about the Oscars is their astonishing consistency in getting s**t so horribly wrong."

Social media users were scathing in their criticism of the Academy's choice.