Tag: Moonlight
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SXSW: Barry Jenkins Shares Oscars Acceptance Speech He Would Have Read After Winning Best Picture For ‘Moonlight’
Academy Award-winning Barry Jenkins took the stage as a keynote speaker and charmed the audience on Day 3 of SXSW. He shared very personal stories about his journey to becoming the acclaimed director he is today. From growing up with a mother addicted to crack cocaine to his undying adoration of Die Hard to making…
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SXSW: Barry Jenkins Delivers the Speech He Wanted to Read When ‘Moonlight’ Won Best Picture
Barry Jenkins didn’t get to deliver the speech he wanted to give at the Oscars last year. It’s easy to understand why: “Moonlight” wasn’t initially announced as the winner of Best Picture, and so when he came onstage for the second time that night he was too flustered to read his prepared remarks.Just now at…
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Why Director Julia Hart Wanted Gugu Mbatha-Raw For ‘Fast Color’ — SXSW
Making a splash at South by Southwest two years ago with her directorial debut, Miss Stevens, writer/director Julia Hart is back in 2018 with supernatural drama Fast Color. Co-written and produced by the director’s husband, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz—well known for graciously turning Best Picture to Moonlight after the envelope scandal that rocked…
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SXSW 2018: Live Stream Barry Jenkins’ Keynote Speech to Learn About Life After ‘Moonlight’ (Exclusive)
If you’ve found yourself wondering what Barry Jenkins has been up to in the year since “Moonlight” shocked the moviegoing world by winning Best Picture, wonder no longer. The filmmaker, who won an Oscar of his own that fateful evening, is at South by Southwest to deliver a Keynote speech. Avail yourself of an exclusive…
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12 films that could be in the running for the Oscars in 2019
New projects from Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins likely to be among contenders.The 2018 awards race officially closed on Sunday, with the curtain coming down as Fox Searchlight’s The Shape Of Water triumphed at the Oscars.While the 2019 race may feel like a distant prospect, the recent Sundance and Berlin festivals have kick-started murmurings about potential…
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Jimmy Kimmel Wastes No Time Joking About Last Year’s Oscars Best Picture Flub
Returning to host his second Oscars in a row, Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time addressing the “envelopegate” fiasco — in which La La Land was momentarily crowned best picture before the real winner, Moonlight, was revealed — that dominated the headlines after last year’s Academy Awards.Kimmel, who began the ceremony by narrating black-and-white newsreel footage…
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‘Get Out’ & ‘Lady Bird’ Win Big at 2018 Independent Spirit Awards
Tonight’s the big night with the Oscars and per usual, the night beforehand was dominated by the Independent Spirit Awards. The last two ceremonies have proven to rightly predict the winner of the Best Film category – both Spotlight and Moonlight won the Isa’s top honor. Top honors at this year’s ceremony went to Get…
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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…
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Oscars so Right
After Moonlight swept the 2017 Oscars, could this year’s awards be the most socially conscious and boundary pushing yet?.Entertainment awards shows: what are they, but a celebrity party to which the likes of you and me are never invited? The relationship between award-winners and cultural excellence has always been coincidental, at best. How else to…
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Greta Gerwig Is Planning Three More Sacramento Movies to Follow ‘Lady Bird’
Lady Bird may have been the first in a series of films set in sunny Sacramento. In an interview with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins on the new A24 Podcast, director Greta Gerwig confessed she was hoping to make a quartet of films in the Lady Bird setting. Super indie movie studio A24 just launched a…