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Oscars: Moonlight wins Best Picture award

| | Feb 27, 2017, at 04:45 pm
Los Angeles, Feb 27 (IBNS): Moonlight, a film directed by Barry Jenkins, has won the Best Picture award at the Oscars on Monday.

Moonlight is an Academy award winning film drama film from 2016 directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and written by both.

The film stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.

Moonlight is the coming of age story of a gay Black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his identity growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

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