Moonlight

Yeah.

I know, what a moment when Jordan Horowitz just says, no, no, you guys, Moonlight won.

And I'm looking at the, I was at home, I'm looking at the TV like, what? What the hell is going on?

I thought at first, honestly, that the Moonlight people and the La La Land people must have had some sort of a run-in on the red carpet, and he was just being mean and kind of baiting them.

Because, I mean, just think about it.

It's so unimaginable.

I got into, you know, sometimes over the course of the season, you get to know people, and I remember the year of Room and Brie Larson winning Best Actress.

We crossed paths quite a bit, and I remember seeing her on the red carpet, and she kind of came running and gave a big high-five on the way in, and then she obviously won.

It was comparing Timothee Chalamet and Call Me By Your Name or whatever.

It was comparing the kid from Moonlight... um who was the middle one the middle age

oh oh um something sanders right yes his name

something so basically ashton it was like him ashton and the in the young kid timothy trembly i hate that i know these white kids name over his name oh my god jacob oh jacob uh no trembly the young kid who was in the room with um

don't want to be with you anymore.

A24 had a big breakout moment with the movie Moonlight, which won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2017.

And you might remember this was the time they accidentally announced the wrong movie.

This is not a joke.

Moonlight has won Best Picture.

Moonlight, Best Picture.

They made films that were simultaneously well-respected by critics and eventually by the Oscars, but also actually seemed cool and interesting to young people because they weren't the most down-the-middle, obvious Oscar-bait films at all.

And they started making horror movies that were not cheap, shocking, and exploitative, that were actually really smart horror movies.

He gave us Noah's Ark.

You know, Terrell Alvin McCraney, right, gives us Moonlight.

Yeah, yeah.

We have Blackbird.

But also, people don't always look at black skin as a beautiful thing.

And so if you are finding more ways to make it almost undeniably gorgeous on the screen, where you have to accept that this is a beautiful shot, that was also part of what made Moonlight.

Even just the way that the poster is, the color that they're using there, it makes the skin tone so rich.

So I just think that...

Yeah.

And that's also, like, a good measure, too, to ask people, like, what smells do you smell in your mind when you watch, like, a certain film? Like, A Good Blood or when you watch, like, A Thousand and One or when you watch, like, Moonlight or something like that.

Like, what do you feel like this film smells like, right? So, like, if I watch, like, Moonlight, it's, like, sea salt, but then also, like, lavender or something.

You know what I'm saying? Like, very, like, lavender smelling like that.

Or like, you know, award film is just like, oh, it's like Nate Bauman, like smells that I don't want to smell.