road moonlightIt may be the best victory in the Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony and shock, but in the expected preferred overthrow No Land LandBarry Jenkins put a number of landmarks. It is a less budget movie that wins the award since Delbert Mann’s Marti In 1955; If inflation is set, it is the lowest level ever. It is the first movie focused on the LGBTQ character to be the best image, and the first whose team is completely colored people. Beyond that, it is incredible moonlight Defeat No Land Land Simply because the latter seemed to be a movie aimed at the academic voters-a well-made music made by Artistry and Hollywood Dreams, filmed with nostalgia to the golden age of industry.
But it may not be very surprising moonlight Take the best image. It is an amazing movie, but also in some aspects that suit the template that the academy tends in recent years. For decades, it was very unusual for the film with most night prizes to lose the best pictures race. But in recent years, this was the rule. For decades, the divisions between the best image and the best director (as happened at the Oscars last night) were a relative rare; In the past twenty years, it happened 8 times. moonlight It is a unique movie, a movie that tells the type of story that has greatly ignored the Academy Awards through its history – it is also a kind of smaller and intimate story that voters began in warming.
moonlight He won three Academy Awards this year: the best image, the best actor (Mahershala Ali), and the best script of Jenkins and Taril Alvin Makrani. The best winner last year Lights It took only prizes, and in 2015, Berdman He won four. The previous year, 12 years old servant He won three, as he did Argo In 2013. In each case, there was another more luxurious production that won at least a larger number of prizes, if not more: Revivaland Grand Budapest Hoteland attractivenessAnd Life of meRespectively (with everyone except Budapest Winning the best director award but not the best image). No Land Land It seems that he belongs to this new rule that divides the tickets, where voters searched a set of technical victories for the amazing candidate, but they provide the best image of smaller production that won approval.
Again, this is not a deduction moonlightThe victory of the game change. Despite films like Lights and Berdman It was independent works, which were made with a much larger budget and distributed by more independent wings than the main studios (moonlightThe distributor was A24, a company Founded five years ago This quickly became one of the most respectable names in American artistic cinema). However, only one studio won the best image in the past decade – Warner Bruce (l Argo and Departure). Since Hollywood’s major production companies have been fired away from Prestige movies to focus more on Big Tentpole’s privileges, the best photo nominations list is full of Indie and “Mid-MAJOR” companies (with Amazon broadcasting service that achieves their penetration this year for the sake Manchester next to the sea).
If things have already been in this direction, then moonlight The beginning of changing the largest sea may be. Of the nine best photo candidates for this year, this is less intense (after it has achieved 22 million dollars in the fourth months since its release, behind the lowest level. Hell or high water With $ 27 million). The Academy Awards ceremony used to have a specific sanctification of films that were completely well well that erupted greatly. How to resemble consensus options A beautiful mindand Wrestlerand brave heart, and forrest gump Take the award for more famous films. No Land Land This mold fits well – but this template may be broken.
It helps moonlight He preached globally, as he got a kind of critical tremor that comes once in a generation, not once a year. It was also a beautiful movie at every level, as it was attracting support from a wide range of Oscars (nominated for his music, cinematic, editing alongside gestures, acting and expected guidance). This is crucial to winning the best image, because people from every Oscar branch get a vote on the winners, and this is what kept independent films less technically than winning in the past. The cup may go next year to some of the big epic that hit the box office, such as Christopher Nolan DunkrickAnd this last style will be raised. either way, moonlightHis victory is shocking enough to remember him forever. The thing that must be seen now is whether the anomalies of the magic Oscar, or a sign of a deep change of the academy.