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Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 2017 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 2017 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 2017 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 2017 · Winner
Academy Award Best Picture 2017 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Screenplay 2017 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Original Score) 2017 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actress 2017 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography 2017 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 2017 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 2017 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 2017 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2017 · Nominated
Amandaprisen Best Foreign Film 2017 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 2017 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actor 2017 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role 2017 · Nominated
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At the 22nd Critics' Choice Awards, Moonlight earned ten nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Jenkins, and Best Supporting Actress for Harris. It went on to win Best Supporting Actor for Ali and Best Acting Ensemble. The American Film Institute included the film in their top ten movies of 2016.
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Moonlight, American dramatic film, released in 2016, that unexpectedly won the Academy Award for best picture. The director and cowriter, Barry Jenkins, won praise for his empathetic depiction of complex characters. Based on the unpublished play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, it tells the story of a young Black man coming to grips with his attraction to other men. It was the first film with an entirely African American cast and the first with a gay main character to win the top Oscar.
Moonlight is set in the impoverished Liberty City area of Miami, shown in brilliant, luminous colours, and takes place in three acts. In the first act, successful drug dealer Juan (played by Mahershala Ali) sees a young boy fleeing a group of other boys threatening to beat him and follows the child into an abandoned apartment, into which he has locked himself for protection. The child (Alex Hibbert) refuses to speak but allows Juan to buy him a meal. Juan and his girlfriend, Teresa (Janelle Monáe), take him into their home, where the boy says that his name is Chiron and that he is called Little, but he refuses to say where he lives until the following morning. Juan returns him to his mother (Naomie Harris), a user of crack cocaine who is emotionally abusive to the child. Juan and Teresa become an alternate family for Chiron, who does not know how to fit in with the other boys in the neighbourhood, though a friend, Kevin (Jaden Piner), tries to teach him.
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In the second act, Chiron (now played by Ashton Sanders) is in high school, where he is bullied by Terrel (Patrick Decile). His mother has sunk deeper into addiction, and he continues to be cared for by Teresa, though his mentor Juan is dead. One night on the beach, Chiron has a sexual encounter with Kevin (now played by Jharrel Jerome). Terrel then manipulates Kevin into knocking Chiron down to be kicked and beaten by Terrel and his cohort. When Chiron returns to school, he strides into the classroom and smashes a chair into Terrel. Chiron is then taken away in handcuffs.
In the third act, ten years have passed, and Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) is a muscle-bound drug dealer in Atlanta, patterning himself after Juan. His mother wants him to visit her in the drug rehab facility, and Kevin (André Howard), now a short-order cook and waiter in a diner in Miami, reaches out to him in a phone call. Chiron first visits his mother, they achieve a wary reconciliation, and then he goes to Kevin’s diner, where Kevin tries to draw him out. At Kevin’s apartment, Chiron confesses that he has been celibate since his encounter with Kevin, and he and Kevin come together.
•Studios: A24, PASTEL, and Plan B Entertainment
•Director: Barry Jenkins
•Writers: Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
•Music: Nicholas Britell
•Mahershala Ali (Juan)
•Alex Hibbert (Chiron as a child)
•Janelle Monáe (Teresa)
•Naomie Harris (Paula, Chiron’s mother)
•Jaden Piner (Kevin as a child)
•Ashton Sanders (teenage Chiron)
•Picture*
•Supporting actor* (Mahershala Ali)
•Supporting actress (Naomie Harris)
•Cinematography
•Directing
•Editing
- Pat Bauer
Feb 27, 2017 · On Sunday at around midnight, "Moonlight" became the first LGBTQ film ever to take the Best Picture prize at the 89th annual Academy Awards. Many LGBTQ-centered films have been nominated for...
- GLAAD Rapid Response Manager
Moonlight received eight nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, the second highest of all nominees, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (for Ali), Best Supporting Actress (for Harris) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
- $65.2 million
- Barry Jenkins
- $1.5–4 million
- Nicholas Britell
Nov 18, 2016 · Moonlight: Directed by Barry Jenkins. With Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert. A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
