Spike Lee made no attempt to hide his outrage on Sunday after Green Book won Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards.

The 61-year-old director, whose latest film BlacKKKlansman had been up for the evening's top prize, could be seen getting to his feet and throwing his hands in the air before heading to the exit.

Lee then tried to storm out of the Dolby Theater while the cast and crew of Green Book took the stage, but was halted by security at the door and told he could not exit.

He then stood at the exit until the speech was over before heading off to the backstage area, where he mocked and criticized the newly-crowned Best Picture winner in media interviews.

There had been reports that Lee returned to his seat during the Green Book speech and defiantly turned his back to the cast and crew while they spoke on stage, but video from the telecast makes it clear that he was not back in the audience before the winners had wrapped up their remarks.

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Booking it: Spike Lee (above leaving the venue when Green Book won) is seen in video from the Academy Awards telecast tossing his arms in the air and then walking towards the exit after Green Book won Best Picture

He's gotta have it: He told reporters that Oscar voters 'made a bad call,' said Green Book was 'not his cup of tea' and noted he always loses to films where 'people drive somebody' (Lee above at the Vanity Fair party)

Lee, who was in a celebratory mood after winning his first competitive Oscar earlier in the night, took a number of shots at Green Book while speaking to the press.

He said the film was 'not his cup of tea' and then compared the ceremony to a Knicks game by declaring the 'refs made a bad call.'

The director, who initially offered up 'no comment' to the press when asked about Green Book besting how own film and category-favorite Roma, did not say much more beyond that though backstage.

He was joined by his wife Tonya backstage, who had remained in the audience after Green Book won Best Picture.

Lee also noted the similarities between Green Book, about a racist white man who is changed as a result of his time driving a wealthy black man through the American South, and Driving Miss Daisy, about a racist white woman who is changed as a result of her time being driven by a black man in the American South.

His 1989 film Do The Right Thing, which is now considered a seminal piece in the pantheon of American cinema, lost on a Best Picture nomination in favor of eventual winner Daisy at the 1990 Oscar ceremony.

'I’m snakebite,' declared Lee while holding a glass of champagne.

'Every time somebody is driving somebody, I lose!'

He also noted: 'This is my sixth glass [of champagne], and you know why.'

That remark capped off an eventful night for Lee at the show.

Farrelly brother: The director was not allowed to exit the Dolby Theater however, with security stopping him when he got to the doors and informing him he could not leave (Green Book director Peter Farrelly accepting the Best Picture award alongside Octavia Spencer)

Empty seat: Lee was likely headed to the backstage area for his media interviews after winning his first competitive Oscar moments prior for Best Adapted Screenplay (Lee's empty chair in the top right)

His win for Best Adapted Screenplay earlier in the evening had been one of the highlights of the ceremony.

As soon as presenter Samuel L Jackson announced that Lee had won the category, the crowd got to their feet while Lee jumped into the arms of Jackson.

He then gave a speech that brought attention to the plight of black Americans.

Lee, whose film includes footage of President Trump following the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, also urged mobilization for the upcoming election.

'Let’s be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love and hate,' said Lee.

He then wrapped by stating: 'Let’s do the right thing!'

Lee did not directly name President Trump at the Oscars, but the real estate scion tweeted Monday that Lee did a 'racist hit on your President.'

Trump claimed that he had 'done more for African Americans' than 'almost' any other president.

The director was also not alone in his disbelief that voters would honor Green Book.

The family of the film's central character, Dr Don Shirley, also denounced the movie.

Maurice told Dailymail.com earlier this month Shirley and Vallelonga were never friends and he was fired for behaviors shown in the movie, such as his refusal to carry Shirley's luggage.

His niece Karole said: 'To feel the right and privilege to depict your life and to tell your story without you, without any input from those who knew you… It's a travesty.'

The 82-year-old says the film is inaccurate to the point of fiction, pointing to the presentation of Shirley as a man disconnected from his family

The family said they did not believe that any attempt was made to find or contact them, nor do they believe Nick Vallelonga's assertion that he and his father visited Shirley before his death in 2013 and were granted permission to tell the story.

Charlie Wachtel, (left), and Lee (center) accept the award for best adapted screenplay for "BlacKkKlansman" at the Oscars

Shirley's last surviving brother, Maurice, 82, (pictured with his wife Patricia) slammed the movie, for which no family members were consulted, as 'a symphony of lies' in January

Maurice said: 'My brother made it very clear that under no circumstances did he [give permission]. My brother was compulsive. If he did not have control he wouldn't have anything to do with it.

'I recall the conversation that we had with Donald at which time he said that Tony had put together his memoir… and wanted to publish it. It was very clear that it would not be done particularly well.'

Shirley and Vallelonga were never friends, according to his brother, so any talk of friendship is 'bogus.'

Maurice said: 'You have to understand my brother's work ethic. He always made it clear to his employees just exactly what they were. They are employees. He is the employer.'

He described the idea that Vallelonga - an overt racist - became close to his brother as quite simply 'a lie.'