Moonlight is doing something that no other film has ever done. It has humanised poor people, poor black people. It has recognised intimacy between black men, black queer men, and it’s done it in a way that we’ve never seen before. So, similar to [Beyonce’s] Lemonade, it’s a groundbreaking moment, right? So when it wins [the Oscar for Best Picture] it will have won for all of the right reasons. If it loses, we will understand that excellence is not the criteria, and we already know that.Claudia Rankine, “Poet Claudia Rankine on studying whiteness, and the age of protest" (via ginsengsheetmask)
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no offense but la la land being called for best picture and then finding out moonlight actually won and seeing all the la la land cast and crew leave the stage added 20 years on my life
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a list of a few things viola davis invented:
- the color red
- acting
- the oscars
- getting away with murder
- winning awards
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