Barry Jenkins Was Indirectly Called the N-Word During ‘Moonlight’s’ Oscar Campaign

Awards season was fairly kind to Barry Jenkins two years ago, with at least one notable exception.

The “Moonlight” co-writer/director, who’s at Tiff with his new film “If Beale Street Could Talk,” last night recalled an incident in which he was called the N-word by his own driver following the Governors Awards in the lead-up to last year’s Oscars ceremony.The entire story was transcribed by Vulture and deserves to be read in full:“During awards season for ‘Moonlight,’ I was at some big party.

It was the Governor Awards for the Academy.

It’s an amazing event.

It’s the event you hear about the least, where they honor all of these folks.

The woman who cut Lawrence of Arabia, the editor, she received a lifetime achievement award there.

It’s all these cars, everybody’s in tuxedos, and there’s an after-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

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