Spirit Awards: ‘Change’ in the Air as ‘Get Out’ Aims for Oscars

Win on Saturday, lose on Sunday? That was the industry maxim that evolved over much of the three decades the independent cinema celebration the Spirit Awards and the annual Academy Awards stood as season-ending foils to one another.

But six short years ago, that went out the window as one Spirit winner after another began to march right on into the Oscars the next day and win top honors there, as well: “The Artist,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Birdman,” “Spotlight” and, just last year, “Moonlight.”The thinking behind all of that was laid out a year ago in a column that, quite frankly, was written assuming the journey had reached its end for writer-director Barry Jenkins and company.

As you probably heard, it had not.

But the stunning eventual “Moonlight” Oscar victory also signaled a potential shift with implications that continue to ripple throughout this season, adding a whole other

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