'Moonlight' wins Best Picture Oscar and sweeps Independent Film Awards

(LOS ANGELES) - February 27, 2017 - With a bit of a dramatic ending, Moonlightconcluded the awards season last night with three Oscar statues at the 89th Academy Awards. Actor Mahershala Ali won "Best Supporting Actor;" directorBarry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney earned "Best Adapted Screenplay" and the film won "Best Picture" - the most coveted prize of the night. On Saturday, Moonlight dominated the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning every category they were nominated in: "Best Feature," "Best Director," "Best Screenplay," "Best Cinematography," "Best Editing" (for which co-editor Joi McMillon became the first black woman to win such an award), and the "Robert Altman Award." Take a look at all the acceptance speeches below, and congratulations to Moonlight and the entire team at A24 and Plan B. "Best Picture" Oscars Speech - Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/oscars-2017-moonlight-wins-best-picture-warren-beatty-error-980813 "Best Supporting Actor" Oscars Speech - Mahershala Ali   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/oscars-2017-mahershala-ali-not-you-characters-979750 "Best Adapted Screenplay" Oscars Speech - Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney   http://oscar.go.com/video/oscar-highlights-2017/barry-jenkins-and-tarell-alvin-mccraney-oscar   Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins accept the Best Screenplay award for "Moonlight" at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. 25, 2017. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) "Best Editing" Film Independent Spirit Awards Speech - Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScAWR30giB4 "Best Director" Film Independent Spirit Awards Speech - Barry Jenkins   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_f6fBA3Bu4 Moonlight is in theaters everywhere.  Go behind the Moonlight story at http://moonlight.movie/.    Download Moonlight stills here: http://bit.ly/2j04CIS [Credit: A24] *******************************************************

"A Masterpiece. We leave the theater as different people than when we came in."- Rolling Stone "Timely and Timeless"- Vanity Fair "MOONLIGHT is artful food for your soul. At a time when so many of us need to be lovingly nourished."- Kerry Washington "MOONLIGHT is the Best Film of the Year, and One That Can Point Americans Forward" - Esquire Magazine  "Every idea, every theme, every emotion you could feel as a human being, you feel onscreen." - Trevor Noah  "Barry Jenkins for President. Incredible movie." - Chris Rock "An Opus" - Issa Rae "Go see this film!" - Jesse Williams