Mahershala Ali has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards. This is Ali’s second Oscar win, after he took the award in the same category in 2017 for Moonlight, becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. He is now the first black actor – and Muslim – to win the best supporting actor twice. Denzel Washington is the only other black actor to win an Oscar more than once. This year Ali triumphed over a field that included Adam Driver as a cop in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Sam Rockwell as George W Bush in Vice, and Richard E Grant as drug dealer Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Ali was the strong favourite for the prize, having won all the major best supporting actor awards this year, including the Bafta, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. Mahershala Ali accepting the best supporting actor Oscar. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters In Green Book, pianist Don Shirley (Ali) hires Italian American hoodlum Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) as a driver and bodyguard on a concert tour in the deep south in the pre-civil rights early 1960s. The film’s title comes from the motoring handbook published to help African Americans avoid hostile areas while travelling around the US. Despite winning a number of influential awards, including the audience award at the Toronto film festival, Green Book has drawn considerable criticism. Co-writer and producer Nick Vallelonga apologised after the rediscovery of an apparently anti-Muslim tweet, while director Peter Farrelly also apologised after accusations of serial sexual misconduct. The film’s portrayal of a close friendship between Vallelonga and Shirley was flatly denied by Shirley’s family in an interview with Shadow & Act, with Ali reportedly apologising to them, saying: “I did the best I could with the material I had.” In his speech, Ali thanked Shirley himself, as well as director Farrelly for his “leadership and guidance”. He then dedicated the award to his grandmother, “who has been in my ear my entire life, telling me if I don’t at first succeed, try, try again … always pushing me to think positively. She has got me over the hump every step of the way.”<doc-sep>The 2019 Academy Awards made for a banger night in men’s style, and Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali, in an eggshell mandarin-collar shirt and black suit with a black hat, was a standout. The black hat had a cuff and a dimple on the crown, leading us to wonder: Was it a beanie? Was it a karakul? Whatever it was, it was the perfect formal gesture that didn’t scream, “I AM WEARING A HAT, ON MY HEAD, AT THE AWARD SHOW.” Milliner Gigi Burris, the brain behind the cap, decoded it for us. “The hat is called The Sharina,” she said, and is a style she’s been making for several seasons now, for both men and women. (Her brand launched men’s a little over a year ago.) She started with “a relaxed beanie style, more than a jinnah or karakul,” she said; the latter are typically made of fur. “We thought it was a cool way to have a cuff, like a beanie.” So it’s safe to call it a formal beanie? “Oh, definitely,” she said. Ali’s stylist, Van Van Alonso—“a really rad chick,” says Burris—had called Burris and her team early last week and laid out their vision for the night; Burris quickly made one up in Ali’s size and sent it over on Wednesday. But your typical stretchy, ribbed wool dome this is not: Burris uses velour-finish felt, and creates the shape by hand-blocking the material over a wooden mold with steam and rope. Her male clients love its structured but relaxed shape, Burris says: musician Raphael Saadiq and visual artist Nari Ward both have Sharinas in their wardrobe. And if you’re looking to carry the style into the summer, Burris is releasing one in straw soon. Sharina hat $350 Gigi Burris Buy Now The Best-Dressed Men of the 2019 Oscars<doc-sep>Image : Getty As I watched Mahershala Ali accept the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in your parent’s favorite movie, Green Book, it occurred to me that Mahershala Ali is the only man alive for whom the rule about wearing glasses if you do not need them to see does not apply. Advertisement Mahershala Ali is an objectively handsome man, but there is something about this silver aviator frame that takes that handsomeness and ratchets it up to a 12,490. Imagine tortoiseshell glasses. Those stupid plastic clear frame ones that everyone has but you still really want. Urkel’s glasses. More aviator glasses. The sky is the limit. Usually people who wear glasses who don’t need glasses are herbs, but Mahershala Ali is the rare exception to this rule. Doesn’t matter if he doesn’t need them! Even though I have no way of knowing if he does or not! Wear the glasses always.<doc-sep>
Mahershala Ali won the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for his performance in "Green Book" at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday. This is Ali's second Oscar and second nomination. He scored his first Academy Award for best supporting actor for "Moonlight" in 2017. He is the second African-American actor to win multiple Oscars, after Denzel Washington. During Ali's acceptance speech, he spoke about the late musician Donald Shirley, who the story of "Green Book" is based on. "I want to thank Dr. Shirley for just trying to capture his essence," he said. "Just trying to capture Dr. Shirley's essence pushed me to my ends. Which is a reflection of the person he was and the life that he lived. And I thank him." He also mentioned his co-star Viggo Mortensen, who played Tony Lip in the film. "I thank my partner, Viggo. It was extraordinary working with you," he shared. He also thanked the film's director, Peter Farrelly. "Thank you for your leadership and guidance. And also for giving us space, like, really giving us space to work it out, and coming in and tweaking. Really appreciate and love you," he continued. Ali dedicated his win to his grandmother. "I want to dedicate this to my grandmother, who has been in my ear my entire life," he shared. "Telling me that if I first I don't succeed, try, try again. That I can do anything I set my mind to. Always, always pushing me to think positively." "I know that I would not be here without her, that she's gotten me over the hump in a lot of ways," he added. The star also thanked his wife and daughter for their support. "Green Book" is also up for best picture tonight. The film has had a good run throughout awards season. At the 2019 Golden Globes, Ali took home the award for best supporting actor, and the film won for best screenplay and best motion picture, comedy or musical.