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6 winners and 3 losers from the 2019 Oscars Green Book wins, Netflix loses, and Spike Lee has a weird night.

#GreenBook #SpikeLee  # BlackPanther # Roma # BohemianRhapsody The  2019 Oscars  were a study in contrasts. On the one hand,  there were milestones aplenty in the hostless show — which ran smoothly,  counter to many people’s expectations . On the other hand, the winners ranged from daring films like  The Favourite  and  Black Panther  to more conventional Oscar fare like Best Picture winner  Green Book . Fifteen movies took home the night’s 24 awards;  Bohemian Rhapsody  led the pack with four , and  Green Book, Roma,  and  Black Panther  each took home three. That means there were lots of winners, and some unexpected upsets too. Here are six winners and three losers from the night’s festivities. Winner:  Green Book Green Book  feels like the kind of movie that would have been an obvious Best Picture winner in the past, in the vein of other Best Picture winners that try to deal with race — think  Driving Miss Daisy  and  Crash . It’s a funny film, with two strong cent

#StanLee, #Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95

The feisty writer, editor and publisher was responsible for such iconic characters as #SpiderMan, the X-Men, Thor, Iron Man, #BlackPanther and the Fantastic Four — 'nuff said. Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of #MarvelComics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95.  Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Mighty Thor, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil and Ant-Man, among countless other characters, died early Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family representative told The Hollywood Reporter. Lee's final few years were tumultuous. After Joan, his wife of 69 years, died in July 2017, he sued executives at POW! Entertainment — a company he founded in 2001 to develop film, TV and video game properties — for $1 billion alleging fraud, then abruptly drop