His second feature film, “Moonlight,” won the Academy Award for Best Picture in a moment of live television that no one is likely to forget soon (the award was mistakenly handed to “La La Land”). Not long after that strange, exhilarating, unprecedented night, Jenkins’s next project was announced: an adaptation, for Amazon, of Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad,” which just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Because of the confusion onstage at the Oscars, we never got to hear the speech that Jenkins had planned to give. He told us about his directing style, his plans for “The Underground Railroad,” his love of science fiction, and, yes, that bat-scat crazy night at the Academy Awards. Or if you’re on a mobile device, the instructions below will help you find and subscribe to the series.

Source: New York Times April 27, 2017 13:07 UTC