Variety has released its traditional post-Oscars issue, and there’s been a bit of buzz around the cover – which features both Moonlight director Barry Jenkins as well as La La Land director Damien Chazelle.
I will never get over Moonlight effectively having to share its narrative with La La Land pic.twitter.com/GGAmFjQORM
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 1, 2017
I sincerely doubt if La La Land won they’d be sharing covers and headlines with Moonlight
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 1, 2017
More than blackness and the second black film to win an Oscar (the first was a slave film), it’s the first LGBT one.
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 1, 2017
Moonlight’s win is historic and should be treated as such but instead, we have to hear about white grace.
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 1, 2017
Historically, Variety highlights a Oscar winner in their post show covers. It’s been Best Director and Best Cinematographer past three. pic.twitter.com/RYtI5XWquG
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 1, 2017
@ira @MarkHarrisNYC @mimbale @PAPPADEMAS Must chime in here: this cover is traditionally reserved for best director. It’s tradition
— Barry Jenkins (@BandryBarry) March 1, 2017
@ira @MarkHarrisNYC @mimbale @PAPPADEMAS There just isn’t as much smoke here as there seems. Time to make the next films and get on with it
— Barry Jenkins (@BandryBarry) March 1, 2017
In fact, it was Chazelle’s camp that suggested to us in the eleventh hour that their client be joined by “Moonlight” writer/director Barry Jenkins, given the wild turn of events when “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as best picture. We jumped at the chance to have these two young, extraordinary filmmakers sit down for an exclusive interview with awards editor Kristopher Tapley. Chazelle and Jenkins hadn’t spoken until they traded stories Monday morning and posed for pictures in the courtyard of El Cabrillo, a two-story Spanish-style condominium built in 1928 by movie mogul Cecil B. DeMille.
One thing that struck me as I sat in the Dolby Theatre watching the surreal climax of the show, and later at the after-party for “La La Land,” was the humility and humanity displayed by the film’s producers and studio backer, Lionsgate, when the Oscar was suddenly swept away by the actual winner, “Moonlight.”
Interesting behind-the-scenes politics.
