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'Moonlight' Expands to 1,500-Plus Theaters After Oscars Best Picture Win
Following Moonlight’s Best Picture win at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday, A24 is expanding the film to 1,500-plus theaters this coming weekend.
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Oscars 2017: ‘Moonlight’ Wins Best Picture After ‘La La Land’ Is Mistakenly Announced for Top Prize — See Complete List of Honorees
Moonlight won Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards — but not without some unexpected bonus drama. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, presenting Best Picture to honor the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde, announced La La Land as the winner, and the acceptance speeches had begun when the mistake was announced. La La Land had won six awards earlier in the evening, after a record-tying 14 nominations. The belated Best Picture award raised Moonlight‘s total to three, following honors for Adapted
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Our Predictions for the 2017 Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards will be doled out at the crack of the Los Angeles dawn on Tuesday morning — and you can watch the livestream here at Yahoo Movies starting 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m. ET. As always, there’s a healthy dose of suspense in every major race, particularly in three of the four acting categories. (The Oscars themselves will be handed out at the ceremony on Feb. 26.)
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Why Naomie Harris Asked Child Actor to Leave Set During 'Moonlight' Outburst Scene
Naomie Harris had vowed never to play a crack addict, but it was a vow she had to break when she received the script for Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age drama Moonlight. The decision has worked out well for the amiable 40-year-old English actress best known for 28 Days Later and the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Harris has received the best reviews of her career for the acclaimed film, along with her first Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award nominations, and a probable Oscar nod on the horizo
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6 Big Surprises from the 2017 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
The acclaimed Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea had expectedly strong showings Tuesday as the nominations were announced for the 32nd Film Independent Spirit Awards. While it’s unsurprising to see indie faves Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Jackie, and American Honey compete for the best picture prize, there is one wild card here: the little-known drama Chronic.
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Meet Barry Jenkins, the Maverick Filmmaker Behind the Acclaimed New Indie 'Moonlight'
There’s a lot of talented people behind Moonlight, the riveting new drama about a young man’s coming to terms with his sexuality as he comes of age in inner-city Miami. There’s Tarell Alvin McCraney, the playwright whose work the film is based on.
