Moonlight (2016)

Academy Awards, USA 2017

Won Oscar	Best Motion Picture of the Year Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Adele Romanski Dede Gardner became the first woman to win Best Picture twice.
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Mahershala Ali
	Best Adapted Screenplay Barry Jenkins (screenplay) Tarell Alvin McCraney (story)
Nominated Oscar	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Naomie Harris
	Best Achievement in Directing Barry Jenkins
	Best Achievement in Cinematography James Laxton
	Best Achievement in Film Editing Joi McMillon Nat Sanders Joi McMillon became the first African American female to be nominated for Best Film Editing
	Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) Nicholas Britell

A24
Directed by Barry Jenkins
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Lionsgate)

A Miami  youth lives alone with his drug-addicted mother in a housing project. He is befriended by her drug dealer who becomes a replacement father figure. As a teenager, the boy is bullied and beaten by classmates for being gay. His mother takes money from him for drugs and his father figure has since died. He has his first homosexual encounter on a beach. As a young adult, he has fled to Atlanta and become a drug dealer himself. One day he gets a phone call from the man he first met on the beach, and travels back to Miami to meet him. Pretentiously filmed melodrama filled with homoerotic imagery of muscular black men. It tries but mostly fails to break stereotypes. The swirling, floating camerawork distracts from rather than adds to the story. Disappointing.