Jenkins took a break from "The Underground Railroad" to reflect on the unexpected impact of his paradigm-shifting drama. But the conversation wasn’t relegated to that sphere alone. Jenkins’ adaptation ...
LOS ANGELES -- Oscar winner, take two. Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” - not, as it turned out, “La La Land” - won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset and an unprecedented fiasco ...
Movies like “Moonlight” don’t win the Oscar for best picture. Movies about the conflicted desires of young gay men, captured with quiet tenderness and exquisite intimacy, don’t win the Oscar for best ...
One year after the craziest, most improbable and downright embarrassing moment in Academy Awards history, 29 key players open up (many for the first time) about the onstage chaos, backstage bickering ...
If no film this year has been as uniformly praised as Moonlight, it’s natural that the cinematography has impressed just about anybody, believer or otherwise, who comes into contact. Barry Jenkins ...
Barry Jenkins's acclaimed drama has topped more than $8 million at the U.S. box office and was a big winner at the 2016 Gotham Awards and New York Film Critics Circle Awards. One of the questions ...
The most rewarding coming-of-age film in many a moon, lyrically luminous Moonlight is the story of a gay African-American youngster in Miami who experiences trouble, trauma and unexpected grace. The ...
A haunting reflection on African American masculinity, writer-director Barry Jenkins' intimate character study traces the life of a Black gay man from his troubled Miami childhood to maturity. By ...