Due to a historic mix-up at this year鈥檚 Oscars, director Barry Jenkins wasn鈥檛 able to make the acceptance speech he wanted to. Now that the dust has settled, the FSU Film School grad is making that statement.
The film is the coming of age story of a young, black gay man from the Miami projects, the child of a crack addict. The story pulls heavily from the personal experiences of Barry Jenkins and his co-writer Tarrell Alvin McCraney. In a stunning fiasco at the Oscars, announcers mistakenly named La La Land as Best Picture, instead of Moonlight. The kerfuffle left the filmmakers almost too shocked to speak. But in an with Entertainment Weekly, Jenkins made the acceptance speech he wanted to.
鈥淸 Moonlight playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney] and I are this kid. We are Chiron. And you don鈥檛 think that kid grows up to be nominated for eight Academy Awards. It鈥檚 not a dream he鈥檚 allowed to have. I still feel that way. I didn鈥檛 think this was possible. But now I look at other people looking at me and if I didn鈥檛 think it was possible, how are they going to? But now it鈥檚 happened. So what I think of possibility, let鈥檚 take it off the table. The thing has happened.鈥�
Jenkins鈥� success, and that little gold statue, proves it is possible.
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