Style MoonlightThe best picture in Oscar may be strange and shocking, but when overturning the expected favorite La La LandBarry Jenkins’ film has set a series of miles. The lowest budget movie to win the prize since Delbert Mann’s Kantal In 1955; If you are set for inflation, the lowest thing so far. The first film focusing on a LGBTQ character, called the best picture, and the actors are completely colorful people. Beyond that, incredible Moonlight hit La La Land Secondly, because it looked like a film for academic voters-a well-made original musical about Hollywood dreams was withdrawn with nostalgia for the golden age of the industry.
But maybe not that surprise Moonlight He took the best photo. It is a striking film, but at the same time a film that fits a mold in which the academy has focused on in recent years. For decades, the film, which has the highest award of the night, has lost the best picture race. But in recent years, this was the norm. For decades, the best painting and the best director (as in last night Oscars) were a relative rare; It has been 8 times in the last 20 years. Moonlight A unique film and a film that tells the story that the Academy Awards have greatly ignored throughout the history – but also a smaller, more intimate story that voters start to warm up.
Moonlight This year has won three academy awards: the best film, the best assistant actor (Mapershala Ali) and the best adapted scenario for Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney. The best picture of last year Spotlight He only bought two trophies and in 2015, Birdman He won four. The year before him, 12 years slave Three wins, as it is Slang In 2013. In any case, there was another richer production that won at least a lot of trophies, although not more: Revenant– Grand Budapest Hotel– GravityAnd Pi’s Liferespectively (but Budapest The best director is winning but not the best picture). La La Land It seems that this new ticket compartment norm, in which voters give a lot of technical wins for the flashy Frontrunner, but the best picture of the smaller production that is admired by more critics.
Again, this is not a discount MoonlightVictory that changed the game. Even though there are movies like Spotlight And Birdman They were independent works, it was made with a much larger budget and distributed by the large studios of the more established indie wings (MoonlightThe distributor was A24, a company It was founded only five years ago This quickly became one of the most respected names in American art cinema). Nevertheless, only one major studio has won the best picture in the last decade – Warner Bros. (for Slang And Separated). As Hollywood’s major production companies move away from prestige films to focus more on the big tent pole franchises, the best picture nomination list is mostly full of indie and “middle knight” companies (flow service Amazon by making its own breakthrough for this year Manchester Deniz).
If things were already on the edge in this direction, then Moonlight It may be the beginning of a bigger sea change. The lowest revenue of this year’s top nine top painting candidates (has earned $ 22 million in the fourth months since its release, behind the next lowest level Hell or high water With $ 27 million). The Oscars had a certain respect for the perfectly well -reviewed films that emerged in a significant way. How are the elections of consensus A beautiful mind– Gladiator– Brave heart, And Forrest Gump He received an award for more acclaimed movies. La La Land This mold fits well – but this mold can be broken.
Helps Moonlight Universally heralded heralded, not once a year, but once in a generation of critical praise of the kind. It was also a beautiful film at all levels, and received support from a wider academy branch (nominated for writing, acting and management nodes expected to make music, cinematography and arrangement). This is very important for the winner of the picture, because people vote for winners from each academy branch, and this is what won smaller, less technically impressive indie movies in the past. Maybe next year the cup will go to a big epic that hit at the box office like Christopher Nolan’s DunkirkAnd this last mold will be raised. One way or another, MoonlightWinning is shocking enough to remember forever. What needs to be followed for now is that it is a deep sign of change for a magical Oscar anomaly or academy.
