If there’s never been high drama quite like this at the Academy Awards before, there’s never been a Best Picture winner like Moonlight either. Never mind winning, it’s a minor miracle that Moonlight was even nominated for Best Picture. With Moonlight, Gardner became the first female producer with two Best Picture Oscars (12 Years a Slave won in 2014). At the risk of making Moonlight sound forbidding or inaccessible (neither of which it is), this might just be the first time an art film has won Best Picture. After the shock of Envelopegate had faded, I looked at the list of Best Picture winners to see if there was any precedent for awarding something so utterly outside the mainstream.

Source: Mint March 01, 2017 05:26 UTC