Moonlight has been celebrated not just for its lush cinematography, haunting score and empathetic exploration of its protagonist’s interior life, but for its representation, as Jenkins and co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney said upon accepting their Adapted Screenplay Oscar, of people who are not with any frequency-or much nuance, for that matter-represented onscreen. The idea that Moonlight’s victory was an upset-a sports analogy that’s not entirely unfit but still somehow casts the winner in a less-deserving light-felt even more apt as we watched Horowitz hand over the golden statue to Jenkins.įor such a mix-up to happen to a movie that is about a marginalized person-a poor, gay, black man-felt even more bittersweet than it might have had the situation been reversed. The show, already running over time, spent precious minutes on La La Land’s soon-to-be retracted speeches, rather than allowing Jenkins and Romanski the opportunity to bask in their win. Everyone onstage made the best of the chaos and moments later, the broadcast was over and Twitter was left to analyze screenshots of the play-by-play and snicker over memes of Ryan Gosling. Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski somehow mustered the composure to accept their surprise award. Host Jimmy Kimmel made some jokes about his lack of fitness for the job and Beatty tried to explain what happened. Immediately after the wrong was righted, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz graciously ceded the floor to Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins. But it also did a great disservice to the creative team behind Moonlight. The moment was exciting for viewers, jubilant for Moonlight devotees and embarrassing for La La Land, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the presenters and the Academy. Then Moonlight, which bookies and prognosticators alike had deemed the incontrovertible underdog, was announced as the winner. Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony ended with a double jaw-dropper: first, in a historic mix-up, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were handed the wrong envelope and incorrectly announced La La Land as Best Picture.
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