Green Book

Characters

• Mahershala Ali : Dr. Don Shirley
• Viggo Mortensen: Tony Lip
• Linda Cardellini : Dolores
• Sebastian Maniscalco: Johnny Venere
• Dimiter D. Marinov: Oleg
• Mike Hatton: George
• P.J. Byrne: Producer

Awards and honours

OSCARS

• Winner| Best picture
• Nominee| Best actor in leading role (Viggo Mortensen)
• Winner| Best actor in a supporting role (Mahershala Ali)
• Winner| Best Original screenplay
• Nominee| Best film editing (Patrick J. Don Vito)

GOLDEN GLOBES

• Winner | Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
• Winner| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role(Mahershala Ali)
• Winner|Best Screenplay (Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie)
• Nominee|Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (Viggo Mortensen)
• Nominee| Best director - Motion Picture (Peter Farrelly)

BAFTA

• Winner| Best Supporting actor (Mahershala Ali)
• Nominee |Best film
• Nominee |Best Leading actor (Viggo Mortensen)
• Nominee |Best Original Screenplay

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF) 2018

•  People's choice award 

Screen Actors Guild Awards  (SAG)  2019

• Winner| Best Supporting actor (Mahershala Ali)
• Nominee |Best Leading actor (Viggo Mortensen)

CRITIC’S CHOISE AWARDS 

• Winner |Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali)
• Nominee |Best Picture
• Nominee |Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
• Nominee| Best  actor in a comedy (Viggo Mortensen)
• Nominee |Best Original Screenplay (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly)
• Nominee | Best Director (Peter Farrelly)
• Nominee| Best Score (Kris Bowers) 

PGA AWARDS (Producers Guild Awards)

• Winner | Producers:  Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelong

AFI Awards Honoree

• Winner | Movie of the year

WRITERS GUILD AWARDS

• Nominee | Original Screenplay (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly)

DIRECTOR GUILD AWARDS

• Nominee | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

See more about Green Book's nominees and awards

Criticism in media

• Green Book’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award Steve Pond THE WRAP

• Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali make odd-couple story shine in Green Book' Leah Greenblatt ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

• Green Book’ Team On The Drive To Change Minds Joe Utichi DEADLINE

Official Sites

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Development and Production

This tale of enduring friendship ultimately became a movie because of an enduring friendship.  Vallelonga had known actor Brian Hayes Currie (Armageddon, Con Air) for decades, and Currie had known Vallelonga’s father well and had even appeared in Vallelonga’s 2008 film, Stiletto. 

So Currie was shocked when, a few years ago, at a coffee shop in Studio City, CA, Vallelonga told him this story about Tony that Currie had never heard. 

“Brian said, ‘Are you crazy?!  You’ve got to make this movie!’” Vallelonga recalls.  Currie’s enthusiasm gave Vallelonga the final push he needed.  “I told him I felt that I was finally ready to make it, and he agreed to write it with me.”

            From Currie’s perspective, the story resonated with rare emotional depth and insight.  “This movie is about seeing the world through another person’s eyes or learning to live in the other guy’s shoes,” Currie says.  “In many ways, both men are fish-out-of-water.  At the beginning of this story, these two people have nothing in common, they should never have met, shouldn’t even be together.  But their story proves that very different people can understand and respect one another.”