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My take is that, long-run, this win was not good for Green Book, and good for the eventual consensus best movie.

An unworthy winner winds up living inside the movie it beat. Instead of a fondly-remembered minor cultural moment, it becomes unworthiness.
People often talk about Do the Right Thing w/o mentioning Driving Miss Daisy.

People rarely mention Driving Miss Daisy outside the context of Do the Right Thing.

That could’ve been Dead Poets Society’s fate, for example.
Ordinary People is a flawed movie with many strengths to recommend it. So is Dances With Wolves.

But they’re largely remembered now as “Can You Believed They Beat {run.var[year]scorsese.exe}?
Crash sucks, but if it hadn’t won the Oscar, people would likely not still have it in their “movies that suuuuuuck” utility belts 15 years later.

Eventually history decides.
Many people do. People would still be talking about that movie even if it hadn’t won best picture. It’s just now it has to escape the long shadows of Raging Bull and (increasingly) The Elephant Man.
Had fun last night picking the “Hindsight Awards” from 1980-1998
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