"That character, for the time that he was on the page, really spoke to my heart.
" Moonlight was the best thing that has ever come across my desk," said Ali in the press room. Disclaimer: This article will consider the 10 films that won an Oscar during the 90s, so the dates of the ceremonies will be used as a reference. If you’re unfamiliar with the 2008 Oscar winners, a lot of people think that one of the other Best Director Oscar nominees, Paul Thomas Anderson, should have won the Academy Award for Best Director. Many of the Best Picture winners represent an attempt by the industry to incorporate these modern techniques with classic Hollywood formulas to create exciting new variations on age-old templates. Out of the film's eight Oscar nominations, the film's Mahershala Ali won for Best Supporting Actor, and Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney won for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Coen Brothers only win for Best Director for No Country for Old Men will forever be overshadowed by those who consider it part of an all-time Oscar snub. The film did, however, pick up the Golden Globe for Best Picture, Drama, and Spirit Award for Best Picture, as well as many other smaller prizes. "I never expected so many people to see the film and see themselves in the film," Jenkins said in the press room following his win. But the low-budget indie film was considered an underdog against the uplifting front-runner La La Land, which had won Best Picture at many previous ceremonies, including the BAFTAs and Critics Choice Awards. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, at the 91st Academy Awards, in. Moonlight-which chronicles a gay boy's self-discovery in the impoverished and drug-ridden Miami of the 1980s-received widespread critical acclaim. Peter Farrellys Green Book received numerous accolades and nominations in 2019.