‘Moonlight’ Dazzles at the Oscars

The other nominees for best adapted screenplay were Eric Heisserer (“Arrival”); Luke Davies (“Lion”); Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder (“Hidden Figures”) and August Wilson, who adapted his own play “Fences”.

The success of Moonlight and Davis can’t be dismissed as the academy pandering to affirmative action, even if some necessary coercion was used and felt – as with all great social causes, such as women’s rights and gay marriage.

“I’m afraid they read the wrong thing”, he told the crowd, revealing that “Moonlight” was actually the victor. He took home the trophy for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Moonlight.

Despite the reversal, “La La Land” still emerged as the night’s top victor, with six Oscars including best actress for Emma Stone and best director for Damien Chazelle, at 32 the youngest director ever to win that prize. celeb news

“Tarell’s writing just described Miami in a way that I hadn’t seen described before”, Jenkins said at the beginning of the clip. I’d say more but that would just be spoiling more than I already have.

In 2014, “12 Years a Slave” won best picture, but its cast was not all black. And in the off-chance that they did-I look specifically to 1990’s ballroom documentary Paris is Burning-the accolades were, unfortunately, bestowed upon the white faces working behind the scenes instead of the black bodies that made the film so compelling in the first place.

In an interview printed in USA magazine Film Comment’s September/October issue, Jenkins cited Hou’s 2005 drama “Three Times” (最好的時光) as the storytelling inspiration behind “Moonlight”.

“[Moonlight playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney] and I are this kid”. The project was brought to Jenkins, who shared a very similar upbringing with the author: the two men “grew up blocks away from each other” in the same impoverished neighborhood, as Jenkins told NPR, and both had mothers who were addicted to crack cocaine.

Thomas Newman ’78 M.M. received his 14th Academy Award nomination for his original score for “Passengers”. It’s not a dream he’s allowed to have. But, as gorgeous as it was, there was something else about Moonlight that made me feel so connected to its story. But now it’s happened.

Jenkins seems content with giving us a movie that’s more like an extended dream sequence, one that lets us interpret the meaning of its events, rather than telling us what to think. “The thing has happened”. Instead, Moonlight provides a case study in the increasing efficacy of indie outfits like A24, which partnered with Brad Pitt’s Plan B – also the producers of 2013 victor 12 Years a Slave – to finance and distribute the movie.