Moonlight

From 'moonlight' To 'manchester,' A Critic Marks His Hypothetical Oscar Ballot

... “Hell or High Water,” or the beautiful bummer that is “ Manchester by the Sea.” But the academy has never given its top prize to a movie quite like “Moonlight,” which is to say a movie that shows us, simply and persuasively, a character’s inner life in all its beautifully unvarnished human complexity. BEST DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins , “Moonlight”. 'Moonlight' director Barry Jenkins sensed when to follow the script - and when to not. WATCH: When Barry Jenkins directed Naomie Harris in "Moonlight," he realized that following his emotional response to serendipitous moments in front of the camera was sometimes more important than strictly following the script. See more videos. Low-key indie realism is often considered the product of close observation, but what Jenkins pulls off in his remarkable second feature is better understood as a seamless act of creative synthesis. Three ...

What Next After The Success Of Moonlight

... for what it has proven, with or without specific recognition from the Academy. For one, an arthouse film centering Black male sexuality and masculinity in a nuanced, complicated way, and broken into three parts without any huge resolution or moralizing has made more than $22 million in fewer than 1200 theaters. That is quite the accomplishment for a film budgeted at $1.5 million. The same can be said of its international gross, which Deadline notes could be as much as $40 million worldwide, an unusual achievement for a serious film without A-lister star clout. All too often, Black filmmakers are told that their works have limited appeal outside of America. Black people can walk on nearly any part of this world and see our cultural impact, yet somehow, we are to believe that we cannot sell our stories abroad. For any Black film to annihilate such asininity with its demonstrated success is something to be celebrated, ...

Moonlight Warms Up With Independent Spirit Awards Win

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Moonlight' Sweeps 2017 Independent Spirit Awards

... feature, the top award. It also won for best director and best screenplay for writer-director Barry Jenkins, and an ensemble cast award. ”This movie exists as a beacon of inclusivity,” Jenkins said. Mario Anzuoni / Reuters. Tarell Alvin Mc Craney and Barry Jenkins accept the Best Screenplay award for "Moonlight" at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. 25, 2017. “Moonlight” will be competing for eight Oscars , including Best Picture. The Independent Spirit Awards, held on California’s Santa Monica Beach on the day before Hollywood’s glitzy Oscars ceremony, honor the year’s best achievements in independent film made on small budgets. The last three winners of the Spirit Awards ― “Spotlight”, “Birdman” and “12 Years a Slave” - all went on to win the Best Picture Oscar, the highest honor in the movie industry. But this year, some of the films getting the most awards buzz, like “La La Land,” “Lion” and “Hidden Figures,” were not eligible for Spirit Awards. Hosted by comedians Nick Kroll and John ...

Moonlight’ Casts A Glow On Liberty City That Will Shine Long After Oscars

... at the box office (including a record-setting 13-week run at O Cinema Wynwood) and has been showered with awards by critics’ groups, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America. For tonight’s Oscar broadcast, the Borscht Film Festival is hosting a free screening of “Moonlight” at 5 p.m., followed by an Oscar-watching block party at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center , where Mc Craney once studied and now regularly teaches. Established in 1975, the center has served as a gallery, studio and educational center, offering courses in all artistic disciplines through after school and summer programs. Now, because of the success of “Moonlight,” the center is also expanding into the filmmaking arena. A new cinematic arts department will be established through a $20,000 donation in Jenkins’ name for his participation ...

Moonlight' Star Alex Hibbert Is In Los Angeles Ready For The Oscars

... to just be about black nominees, either, or even race. Instead, it was meant to shine a light on all underrepresented communities in films. And while much has been made of the breadth of the academy's efforts, David Poland, editor of Movie City __link__, has estimated that in the end, there were fewer than 50 new black members and just over 30 new female members inducted. (The academy does release specific information about membership.) He and others have questioned the idea that this year's nominations are a result of those changes. "The diversity of the nominees is 100% a function of the films that were released this year," Poland said. "It is wonderful that these films were recognized this season. but not because they were 'of color,' but because they are excellent movies. It is, in reality, insulting to the films that are about or made by people of color that they will get in or have gotten in based on the issue of race.". Conflating the protest with the accolades is a double edged sword for ...

Moonlight' And 'la La Land' Face Off For The Final Awards

... we were giving back,” said Moore. “Animated films don’t have to be just for kids,” said Howard. The win marked Disney’s fifth straight one in the category. “Our studio employs artists from all over the world,” Moore said. “There’s no way we could make these movies without the talent of international artists.”. Feb. 26, 2017, 8:49 p.m. Nardine Saad. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images). The escalating rivalry between Jimmy Kimmel and actor Matt Damon was expected to heat up on Sunday and Kimmel did not disappoint. The Oscars host capitalized on several opportunities to burn his arch-rival, who is attending this year's ceremony as a producer for best picture nominee "Manchester by the Sea." Kimmel took aim at Damon during his opening monologue, ribbing Damon's massive flop "The Great Wall.". “When I first met Matt, I was the fat one,” Kimmel said, before calling Damon ...

Fighting For Symbolism, Or More

... there are practical reasons why the Oscars matter, and why movie fans should want more progressive, diverse, and ambitious films to win Oscars. The majority of Americans can’t name a single Best Picture nominee, according to a recent Hollywood Reporter poll. So winning Best Picture can introduce a film to audiences that might not otherwise discover the film — in the case of “Moonlight,” an intimate portrait of a gay black man’s coming of age, that would be significant. Winning awards also gives filmmakers clout and leverage. “There’s instant prestige, so you suddenly become more attractive to studios and producers,” said Rocco Caruso, a producer who has worked with the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme for the past six years. “If you win for director, you suddenly are in a different category. So you’re given projects you wouldn’t have been offered before. People think of you in a different way. You’re now prestige, so when [studios] have a prestige project, winners are instantly at the top of the list. And the minute you win, your rate goes up; if you’re a director making $200,000 ...

Moonlight May Be 'important

... right thing. Black faces are not seen often enough on the big screen, the thinking goes, so when they are we must cheer on the film-makers for their good intentions. "Important". In the wrong hands, what a dangerous word it can be. Every week one reads of films, plays and books that are important. There are worse words, of course. "Seminal" is a shocker, not that it stops pop critics in particular from stuffing it in their reviews like plums in a pudding, and "life-enhancing" is a handy emetic. As for "critique", used increasingly as verb as well as noun, it reveals the writer to be worthy of the BEM (bullsh.er of exceptional merit) decoration. Moonlight is up for eight Academy Awards. Once again it is time to recall something Kingsley Amis wrote, 34 years ago. "Importance in literature isn't important. Good writing is.". There really shouldn't be an argument against that – not one worth hearing, anyway – but many moulders of modern taste clearly consider the novelist's judgment to be dreadfully old-fashioned. An intellectually challenged rapper, therefore, is deemed to be important because he reflects the "edgy" underbelly of city life, and the concerns of "real people". ...