GREEN BOOK WINS AT THE O$CARS BUT LOOSES AT THE BOX OFFICE! THE PUBLIC HAD ALREADY VOTED FOR AVENGER WITH THEIR WALLETS!

BUT BLACK PANTHER WAS A DISTANT SECOND

Again this year I truly appreciate the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members telling me that GREEN BOOK was the Best motion picture of the year, but in the ONLY category that really counts – MONEY MADE – it appears the International audience made a different decision.  When it comes to picking movies, I always "trust the mob" so here is how the movie going paying public ranked this year’s movies as of 25 February 2019.

In a departure from the norm, two of this year’s eight nominees for Best Picture are among the eight top money maker of the past year with Black Panther coming in a distant second at $1.347 Billion and Bohemian Rhapsody was #6 bringing in $861 Million.  This year’s Top earner and crowd favorite was AVENGER: Infinity War with a whopping $2,048.4 take at the box office.  That means AVENGER made nearly 30 times more money at the box office then the Academy’s “Best” picture selection – GREEN BOOK.  Although I’m sure winning the Oscar is a great honor, I’m confident the producers of GREEN BOOK would gladly trade their Oscar for the extra $1.979 Billion Avenger earned.

Hence, as in past years in the money spending public’s opinion it was again no contest ….and the WINNER is, bank statement Please (drum roll), the hands down winner by a country mile is (sorry GREEN BOOK): AVENGER: Infinity War!

As a footnote, if BlacKKKlansman had won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam would have been really pissed off since it would have been a rip off of his 1984 Halloween costume and he has his Medical School yearbook photo to prove it.