Movies like “Moonlight” don’t win the Oscar for best picture. Movies about the conflicted desires of young gay men, captured with quiet tenderness and exquisite intimacy, don’t win the Oscar for best picture. Movies about black life that are not overtly about slavery don’t win the Oscar for best picture. Movies that were financed on a shoestring and that draw their deepest stylistic influences from Asian art-cinema auteurs like Wong Kar-wai don’t win the Oscar for best picture. Movies like “Moonlight” don’t win the Oscar for best picture.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 27, 2017 23:31 UTC