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Feb 27, 2017 · Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose script "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" was the basis for the film, also took an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday.
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The film was critically acclaimed, and McCraney and Jenkins won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. McCraney wrote the screenplay for the 2019 American sports drama, High Flying Bird, directed by Steven Soderbergh and released by Netflix.
Feb 27, 2017 · Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney fulfilled their destiny Sunday night. “Moonlight” won its second Oscar of the night for Best Original Screenplay thanks to the incredible efforts of these...
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His script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He wrote the film High Flying Bird which premiered on Netflix directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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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 Based on the unpublished play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, it tells the story of a young Black man coming to grips with his attraction to other men.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
- Patricia Bauer
Feb 27, 2017 · Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney won the best adapted screenplay Oscar Sunday night for “Moonlight.” The duo received a standing ovation as they took the stage to accept the award.
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Jul 13, 2020 · On February 26, 2017, Tarell Alvin McCraney became an Academy Award winner. “Two boys from Liberty City, up on this stage, representing 305,” he said while standing in front of a microphone inside Los Angeles’s Dolby Theater.
