Moonlight (2016)

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Wikidata Q21527875, film, IMDb tt4975722, TMDB 376867: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Barry Jenkins as director (Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show); 4 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Aftersun: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (awards comparison): Aftersun → Moonlight. Sean says A24 could push Aftersun like Moonlight if they did not have Everything Everywhere All at Once.
    “you could see them really pushing a kind of moonlight-esque campaign behind this film.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

An Angel at My Table: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structure): An Angel at My Table → Moonlight. Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule.
    “there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Cheryl Boone Isaacs: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Moonlight → Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Moonlight is framed as the new academy's win, tied to new members and Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
    “And then Moonlight was this incredible paroxysm that people nobody saw that coming and it was this small story”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:25:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Damien Chazelle: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Damien Chazelle → Moonlight. Another split between best director and best picture: Chazelle won director for La La Land and Moonlight won picture.
    “We had this a couple of years ago, of course, when Damian Chazelle won best director for La La Land, and then Moonlight went on to win best picture.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:08:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Green Book: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Green Book → Moonlight. Moonlight, Shape of Water, and Green Book wins run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.
    “The last 3 wins, kind of run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Minari: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Minari → Moonlight. Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough.
    “Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

The Trial of the Chicago 7: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Moonlight. Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed.
    “I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Damien Chazelle → Moonlight. Another split between best director and best picture: Chazelle won director for La La Land and Moonlight won picture.
    “We had this a couple of years ago, of course, when Damian Chazelle won best director for La La Land, and then Moonlight went on to win best picture.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:08:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (structure): An Angel at My Table → Moonlight. Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule.
    “there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

industry (3)

  1. industry (awards comparison): Aftersun → Moonlight. Sean says A24 could push Aftersun like Moonlight if they did not have Everything Everywhere All at Once.
    “you could see them really pushing a kind of moonlight-esque campaign behind this film.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Green Book → Moonlight. Moonlight, Shape of Water, and Green Book wins run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.
    “The last 3 wins, kind of run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Moonlight → Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Moonlight is framed as the new academy's win, tied to new members and Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
    “And then Moonlight was this incredible paroxysm that people nobody saw that coming and it was this small story”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:25:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Minari → Moonlight. Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough.
    “Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Moonlight. Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed.
    “I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Moonlight: Griffin admits he was so Moonlight-pilled he assumed Kerry Fox would be the entire third part, and only 30 minutes into part two realized she had arrived.
    “I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:20:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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