Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday, was a notable winner even beyond the bizarre circumstances of the announcement of its victory. It’s both the first LGBT-focused film and the first movie with an all-African-American cast to take Best Picture. And on top of that, it won the award with a mostly unknown cast and a director whose only previous credit was eight years earlier.
There’s another thing about Moonlight that differs from most films that win Best Picture: It was not a box office hit. In fact, with $22 million in earnings to date, it was the lowest-grossing of the nine Best Picture nominees this year, and the ...
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