Moonlight (2016)
Drama
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The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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Crew
Barry Jenkins
director
Barry Jenkins
writer
Tarell Alvin McCraney
writer
Brad Pitt
producer
Dede Gardner
producer
Jeremy Kleiner
producer
Adele Romanski
producer
Veronica Nickel
producer
Sarah Esberg
producer
Andrew Hevia
producer
Elayne Schneiderman Schmidt
producer
Tarell Alvin McCraney
producer
John Montague
producer
Cast
Trevante Rhodes
Chiron "Black" Harris
André Holland
Kevin Jones
Janelle Monáe
Teresa
Ashton Sanders
Teen Chiron Harris
Jharrel Jerome
Kevin age 16
Alex Hibbert
Child Chiron "Little" Harris
Jaden Piner
Kevin age 9
Naomie Harris
Paula
Mahershala Ali
Juan
Shariff Earp
Terrence
Duan Sanderson
Azu
Herman 'Caheej' McGloun
Longshoreman
Kamal Ani-Bellow
Portable Boy 1
Keomi Givens
Portable Boy 2
Eddie Blanchard
Portable Boy 3
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Oh. OH. This poster is a masterpiece of visual design. A Black man's face — actually three versions of the same man across different chapters of his life — composited into a single face, split down the center with teal/cyan light on the left and deep violet/magenta on the right. The result is this haunting, luminous portrait where you can see the boy and the man simultaneously, both beautiful, both searching. The jawline is strong, the eyes are heavy with everything unspoken. "MOONLIGHT" glows in white text at the bottom like it's emerging from water. Barry Jenkins created something transcendent here — a film about Black gay identity that was so tender, so precise, so human that it broke the Academy's entire brain. And it WON. Say it louder for the people in the back.